URban Biotopes of Aotearoa New Zealand (URBANZ) (I): Composition and diversity of temperate urban lawns in christchurch

Urban Ecosystems

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 233-248

  Stewart, Glenn H ^a,b   Ignatieva, Maria E ^a   Meurk, Colin D ^c   Buckley, Hannah ^a   Horne, Benjamin ^a   Braddick, Toni ^a  

^a LINCOLN UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

^b New Zealand Research Centre for Urban Ecology   (New Zealand)

^c LANDCARE RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Garden city; Lawn maintenance; Ordination; Urban lawns; Vegetation classification

Indexed keywords

POACEAE;

EID: 70349317148     PISSN: 10838155     EISSN: 15731642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11252-009-0098-7     Document Type: Article

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