Urban domestic gardens: The effects of human interventions on garden composition

Environmental Management

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 808-824

  Loram, Alison ^a   Warren, Philip ^a   Thompson, Ken ^a   Gaston, Kevin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Gardens; Housing; Management; Recreation; Vegetation; Wildlife gardening

Indexed keywords

CLIMATIC FACTORS; GARDENS; HUMAN HEALTH; HUMAN INTERVENTION; MANAGEMENT ACTIVITIES; PLANT SPECIES; RECREATION; UNITED KINGDOM; URBAN AREAS; WILDLIFE GARDENING;

BIODIVERSITY; MAMMALS; POTABLE WATER; VEGETATION;

MANAGEMENT;

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BIODIVERSITY; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; GARDEN CITY; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT;

ARTICLE; CITY; CLIMATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOMESTIC SPECIES; EATING; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; FLOWER; GARDENING; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION (SPECIES); HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; LAND USE; LEISURE; NONHUMAN; PLANT LEAF; QUESTIONNAIRE; RECREATION; SPECIES COMPOSITION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; UNITED KINGDOM; URBAN AREA; VEGETATION; WILDLIFE;

BIODIVERSITY; CITIES; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; GARDENING; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; QUESTIONNAIRES; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

UNITED KINGDOM;

AMPHIBIA; AVES; MAMMALIA;

EID: 80054766225     PISSN: 0364152X     EISSN: 14321009     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00267-011-9723-3     Document Type: Article

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