Biodiversity in urban habitat patches

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 360, Issue 1-3, 2006, Pages 196-204

  Angold, P G ^a   Sadler, J P ^a   Hill, M O ^b   Pullin, A ^a   Rushton, S ^c   Austin, K ^a   Small, E ^a   Wood, B ^a   Wadsworth, R ^b   Sanderson, R ^c   Thompson, K ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^c NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Beetles; Biodiversity; Birmingham; Butterflies; Habitat corridors; Mammals; Modelling; Plants; URGENT

Indexed keywords

BIOTECHNOLOGY; ECOLOGY; PLANTS (BOTANY);

BEETLES; BIRMINGHAM; BUTTERFLIES; HABITAT CORRIDORS; MAMMALS; URGENT;

BIODIVERSITY;

BEETLE; BIODIVERSITY; ECOLOGY; FAUNA; FLORA; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; MAMMAL; WOODLAND;

ANIMAL SOCIETY; ARTICLE; BEETLE; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOME; BUTTERFLY; CITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DORMOUSE; ECOSYSTEM; FAUNA; FLOWER; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HABITAT PATCHINESS; HABITAT QUALITY; HABITAT STRUCTURE; INVERTEBRATE; MAMMAL; NONHUMAN; PLANT; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TARGET VARIABLE; THEORETICAL MODEL; UNITED KINGDOM; URBAN AREA; WILDLIFE;

ANIMALS; BEETLES; BIODIVERSITY; BUTTERFLIES; CITIES; ENVIRONMENT; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; GREAT BRITAIN; MAMMALS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PLANTS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; URBANIZATION; VARIATION (GENETICS);

BIRMINGHAM [ENGLAND]; ENGLAND; EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

ANIMALIA; CARABIDAE; COLEOPTERA; INVERTEBRATA; MAMMALIA; MICROTUS RICHARDSONI; MYOXIDAE; PAPILIONOIDEA;

EID: 33646099399     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2005.08.035     Document Type: Article

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