Towards a monitoring method and a number of multifaceted and hierarchical biodiversity indicators for urban and suburban parks

Landscape and Urban Planning

Volumn 49, Issue 3-4, 2000, Pages 149-162

  Hermy, Martin ^a   Cornelis, Johnny ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Biodiversity indicator; Monitoring method; Urban parks

Indexed keywords

BIOINDICATOR; HABITAT STRUCTURE; MONITORING; SPECIES DIVERSITY; URBAN AREA;

BELGIUM; LOPPEM;

AMPHIBIA; AVES; PAPILIONOIDEA; TRACHEOPHYTA;

EID: 0034691710     PISSN: 01692046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-2046(00)00061-X     Document Type: Article

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