City-wide relationships between green spaces, urban land use and topography

Urban Ecosystems

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 269-287

  Davies, Richard G ^b   Barbosa, Olga ^a,c   Fuller, Richard A ^a   Tratalos, Jamie ^a   Burke, Nicholas ^d   Lewis, Daniel ^d   Warren, Philip H ^a   Gaston, Kevin J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^c INSTITUTO DE ECOLOGÍA Y BIODIVERSIDAD IEB   (Chile)

^d SHEFFIELD CITY COUNCIL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Housing density; Normalised difference vegetation index; Topography; Tree cover; Urban form

Indexed keywords

EID: 50149107562     PISSN: 10838155     EISSN: 15731642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11252-008-0062-y     Document Type: Article

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