Ecology in a multidisciplinary study of urban green space: The URGE project

Boreal Environment Research

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 479-489

  Venn, Stephen J ^a   Niemelä, Jari K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

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