Diversity and distribution of landscape trees in the compact Asian city of Taipei

Applied Geography

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 577-587

  Jim, C Y ^a   Chen, Wendy Y ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Compact city; Taipei; Urban biodiversity; Urban ecology; Urban forest; Urban tree communities

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION PLANNING; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; HABITAT CONSERVATION; NATIONAL PARK; NATIVE SPECIES; NATURE CONSERVATION; SPATIAL VARIATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; STRATEGIC APPROACH; TREE; URBAN ECOSYSTEM; URBAN PLANNING;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; TAIPEI; TAIWAN;

EID: 70349786096     PISSN: 01436228     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeog.2009.01.002     Document Type: Article

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