Ecosystem Services in Farmland and Cities

Ecosystem Services in Agricultural and Urban Landscapes

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 1-15

  Sandhu, Harpinder ^a   Wratten, Steve ^b  

^a FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b LINCOLN UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Agricultural ecosystem; Ecosystem services (ES); Engineered ecosystems; Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MEA); Urban ecosystem

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886200767     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781118506271.ch1     Document Type: Chapter

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