Urban biodiversity: Patterns and mechanisms

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1223, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 69-81

  Faeth, Stanley H ^a   Bang, Christofer ^b   Saari, Susanna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT GREENSBORO   (United States)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Species interactions; Urbanization

Indexed keywords

ARTHROPOD; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BIRD; CITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONSERVATION BIOLOGY; EVOLUTIONARY DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; HABITAT; HUMAN; MICROORGANISM; NONHUMAN; PLANT; PLANT COMMUNITY; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; SOCIOECONOMICS; SPECIES COMPOSITION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; URBAN AREA; URBANIZATION; VEGETATION;

ANIMALIA; ARTHROPODA; AVES;

EID: 79953137655     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2010.05925.x     Document Type: Article

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