Urban vascular flora and ecological characteristics of Kadıköy district, Istanbul, Turkey

Maejo International Journal of Science and Technology

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 64-87

  Osma, Etem ^a   Özyiǧit, Ibrahim I ^a   Altay, Volkan ^b   Serin, Memduh ^a  

^a MARMARA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b MUSTAFA KEMAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Istanbul; Kadi dotless k y; Urban ecology; Urban flora; Urban habitats

Indexed keywords

EID: 77950962128     PISSN: 19057873     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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