The changing landscape: Ecosystem responses to urbanization and pollution across climatic and societal gradients

Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 264-272

  Grimm, Nancy B ^a   Foster, David ^b   Groffman, Peter ^c   Grove, J Morgan ^d   Hopkinson, Charles S ^e   Nadelhoffer, Knute J ^f   Pataki, Diane E ^g   Peters, Debra P C ^h  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c CARY INSTITUTE OF ECOSYSTEM STUDIES   (United States)

^d Northern Research Station   (United States)

^e ECOSYSTEMS CENTER   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^h AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CONNECTIVITY; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ECOSYSTEM RESPONSE; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; LANDSCAPE CHANGE; POLLUTION EFFECT; RESOURCE USE; SETTLEMENT PATTERN; URBANIZATION;

NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 44449094603     PISSN: 15409295     EISSN: 15409309     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/070147     Document Type: Review

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