Global patterns of city size distributions and their fundamental drivers

PLoS ONE

Volumn 2, Issue 9, 2007, Pages

  Decker, Ethan H ^a,d   Kerkhoff, Andrew J ^b   Moses, Melanie E ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^b KENYON COLLEGE   (United States)

^c University of New Mexico   (United States)

^d NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; IMMIGRATION; LIGHT; NIGHT; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION SIZE; SOCIOECONOMICS; URBAN AREA; URBANIZATION; CITY; HUMAN; MIGRATION; POPULATION DENSITY; URBAN POPULATION;

CITIES; ECOSYSTEM; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; HUMANS; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; URBAN POPULATION; URBANIZATION;

EID: 41449088186     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0000934     Document Type: Article

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