Diversity of Central European urban biota: Effects of human-made habitat types on plants and land snails

Journal of Biogeography

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1152-1163

  Lososová, Zdeňka ^a   Horsák, Michal ^a   Chytrý, Milan ^a   Čejka, Tomáš ^b   Danihelka, Jiří ^a,c   Fajmon, Karel ^a   Hájek, Ondřej ^a   Juřičková, Lucie ^d   Kintrová, Kateřina ^a   Láníková, Deana ^a,c   Otýpková, Zdenka ^a   Řehořek, Vladimír ^a   Tichý, Lubomír ^a  

^a MASARYK UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^b INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY   (Slovakia)

^c INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (Czech Republic)

^d CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Beta diversity; Biodiversity; City; Disturbance; Europe; Flora; Species richness; Urban ecology; Urbanization

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; DISTURBANCE; HABITAT TYPE; INNER CITY AREA; LAND USE CHANGE; RESIDENTIAL LOCATION; SNAIL; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; SUCCESSION; URBAN ECOSYSTEM; URBANIZATION; VEGETATION;

BELGIUM; NETHERLANDS;

ANIMALIA; GASTROPODA; STYLOMMATOPHORA; TRACHEOPHYTA;

EID: 79955846540     PISSN: 03050270     EISSN: 13652699     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2011.02475.x     Document Type: Article

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