Waste not, want not: The need to utilize existing artificial structures for habitat improvement along urban rivers

Restoration Ecology

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 373-381

  Francis, Robert A ^a   Hoggart, Simon P G ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Artificial structures; Habitat creation; River Thames; River walls; Urban river

Indexed keywords

HABITAT CREATION; HABITAT RESTORATION; RIPARIAN ZONE; RIVER BANK; SPECIES RICHNESS; URBAN AREA;

ENGLAND; EURASIA; EUROPE; THAMES RIVER [ENGLAND]; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 51349150851     PISSN: 10612971     EISSN: 1526100X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1526-100X.2008.00434.x     Document Type: Article

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