Vegetation composition and structure of woody plant communities along urban interstate corridors in Louisville, KY, U.S.A.

Urban Ecosystems

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 501-524

  Trammell, Tara L E ^a   Carreiro, Margaret M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE   (United States)

Author keywords

Amur honeysuckle; Ecosystem services; Exotic invasive species; Forest regeneration; Lonicera maackii; Non metric multidimensional scaling (NMDS); Urban forests; Urban interstates

Indexed keywords

LONICERA; LONICERA MAACKII;

EID: 82655174003     PISSN: 10838155     EISSN: 15731642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11252-011-0193-4     Document Type: Article

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