Factors affecting terrestrial invertebrate diversity in bioretention basins in an Australian urban environment

Landscape and Urban Planning

Volumn 92, Issue 3-4, 2009, Pages 304-313

  Kazemi, Fatemeh ^a,b   Beecham, Simon ^a   Gibbs, Joan ^a   Clay, Roger ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b FERDOWSI UNIVERSITY OF MASHHAD   (Iran)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Bioretention basin; Micro scale urban environment; Terrestrial invertebrate; Water Sensitive Urban Design (WSUD)

Indexed keywords

ANIMALS; CONSERVATION; ECOSYSTEMS; FORESTRY; STRATEGIC PLANNING; URBAN GROWTH;

BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION; BIODIVERSITY INDICATORS; BIORETENTION BASINS; DISTRIBUTION PATTERNS; FIELD INVESTIGATION; TERRESTRIAL INVERTEBRATE; URBAN ENVIRONMENTS; WATER SENSITIVE URBAN DESIGN (WSUD);

BIODIVERSITY;

BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION PLANNING; HABITAT MANAGEMENT; INVERTEBRATE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; URBAN AREA; URBAN ECOSYSTEM; URBAN PLANNING;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; MELBOURNE; VICTORIA [AUSTRALIA];

INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 68349135430     PISSN: 01692046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.landurbplan.2009.05.014     Document Type: Article

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