Seed traits, landscape and environmental parameters as predictors of species occurrence in fragmented urban railway habitats

Basic and Applied Ecology

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 29-37

  Westermann, Janneke R ^a   von der Lippe, Moritz ^a   Kowarik, Ingo ^a  

^a TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Abandoned railway area; Brownfield; CCA; Cfit values; Dispersal limitation; Fragmentation; Habitat connectivity; Predictability; Species traits; Urban ecology

Indexed keywords

EID: 78751572829     PISSN: 14391791     EISSN: 16180089     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.baae.2010.11.006     Document Type: Article

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