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FOCUS: Landscape Form, Process, and Function: Coalescing Geographic Frontiers

Landscape Models and Explanation in Landscape Ecology—A Space for Generative Landscape Science?

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Pages 369-382 | Received 01 Mar 2005, Accepted 01 Apr 2006, Published online: 29 Feb 2008

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