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Author(s): R. S. Cantrell and C. Cosner
Title: Spatial ecology via reaction-diffusion equations
Additional book information: John Wiley & Sons Ltd., Chichester, UK, 2003, 428, $155.00, ISBN 0-471-49301-5

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Reviewer(s):
H. L. Smith
Affiliation: Arizona State University
Email: halsmith@asu.edu

MSC (2000): Primary 92D25, 35K57
PII: S 0273-0979(04)01027-4
Posted: June 17, 2004
Copyright of article: Copyright 2004, American Mathematical Society

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