Urban summer heat load: Meteorological data as a proxy for metropolitan biodiversity

Meteorologische Zeitschrift

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 525-528

  Kappes, Heike ^a   Katzschner, Lutz ^b   Nowak, Carsten ^c,d  

^a NATURALIS BIODIVERSITY CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KASSEL   (Germany)

^c SENCKENBERG DEUTSCHES ENTOMOLOGISCHES INSTITUT   (Germany)

^d BIODIVERSITY AND CLIMATE RESEARCH CENTRE BIK F   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANOVA (ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE); CENTRAL EUROPE; CLIMATIC STRESS; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; HEAT WAVES; HUMAN HEALTH; INTRODUCED SPECIES; METEOROLOGICAL DATA; METROPOLITAN AREA; NATIVE SPECIES; PHYSIOLOGICAL EQUIVALENT TEMPERATURES; REGIONAL CLIMATE MODELS; SPECIES RICHNESS; SUMMER HEAT; TERRESTRIAL GASTROPODS; URBAN HEAT ISLAND; VEGETATION COVER;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; EQUIVALENCE CLASSES; METEOROLOGY; MOLLUSCS; THERMAL LOAD; THERMAL STRESS;

URBAN GROWTH;

BIODIVERSITY; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; GASTROPOD; HEAT ISLAND; METROPOLITAN AREA; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SUMMER; URBAN CLIMATE; URBANIZATION;

CENTRAL EUROPE;

GASTROPODA;

EID: 84874628996     PISSN: 09412948     EISSN: 16101227     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1127/0941-2948/2012/0361     Document Type: Article

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