Urban form, biodiversity potential and ecosystem services

Landscape and Urban Planning

Volumn 83, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 308-317

  Tratalos, Jamie ^a   Fuller, Richard A ^a   Warren, Philip H ^a   Davies, Richard G ^a   Gaston, Kevin J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Carbon sequestration; Green space; Housing density; Patch size; Run off; Tree cover

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEMS; NATURAL RESOURCES MANAGEMENT; TEMPERATURE CONTROL;

CARBON SEQUESTRATION; GREEN SPACE; HOUSING DENSITY; PATCH SIZE; TREE COVER;

URBAN PLANNING;

BIODIVERSITY; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; GREENSPACE; HOUSING; PATCH SIZE; RUNOFF; URBAN AREA; URBAN DEVELOPMENT; URBAN PLANNING;

EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 36049032741     PISSN: 01692046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.landurbplan.2007.05.003     Document Type: Article

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