Plant diversity and distribution in urban domestic gardens and apartments in Bangalore, India

Urban Ecosystems

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 911-925

  Jaganmohan, Madhumitha ^a   Vailshery, Lionel Sujay ^a   Gopal, Divya ^a,b   Nagendra, Harini ^a,c  

^a ASHOKA TRUST FOR RESEARCH IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (India)

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cities; Green spaces; India; Urban biodiversity; Urban ecology

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; AVES; FORMICIDAE; HEXAPODA;

EID: 84868534978     PISSN: 10838155     EISSN: 15731642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11252-012-0244-5     Document Type: Article

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