Relationships between urban tree communities and the biomes in which they reside

Applied Vegetation Science

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 8-20

  Ramage, Benjamin S ^a   Roman, Lara A ^a   Dukes, Jeffrey S ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS BOSTON   (United States)

^c PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anthropogenic biome; Climate; Ecoregion; Hardiness zone; Landscape trees; Non metric multidimensional scaling; Urban ecology; Urban forest; Urban vegetation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84872417790     PISSN: 14022001     EISSN: 1654109X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1654-109X.2012.01205.x     Document Type: Article

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