Ecosystem services provided by urban spontaneous vegetation

Urban Ecosystems

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 545-557

  Robinson, Sarah L ^a   Lundholm, Jeremy T ^b  

^a Atlantic Canada Conservation Data Centre   (Canada)

^b SAINT MARY S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Biomass; Brownfield; Habitat provisioning; Pollinators; Species richness; Wasteland

Indexed keywords

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EID: 84865566527     PISSN: 10838155     EISSN: 15731642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11252-012-0225-8     Document Type: Article

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