Urban ecological systems: Linking terrestrial ecological, physical, and socioeconomic components of metropolitan areas

Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics

Volumn 32, Issue , 2001, Pages 127-157

  Pickett, S T A ^a   Cadenasso, M L ^a   Grove, J M ^a   Nilon, C H ^a   Pouyat, R V ^a   Zipperer, W C ^a   Costanza, R ^a  

^a CARY INSTITUTE OF ECOSYSTEM STUDIES   (United States)

Author keywords

City; Hierarchy theory; Integration; Patch dynamics; Urban ecology

Indexed keywords

HETEROGENEITY; LAND USE PLANNING; PATCH DYNAMICS; URBAN ECOSYSTEM;

INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 0035673613     PISSN: 00664162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.ecolsys.32.081501.114012     Document Type: Review

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