Urban biodiversity hotspots wait to get discovered: The example of the city of Ioannina, NW Greece

Landscape and Urban Planning

Volumn 120, Issue , 2013, Pages 129-137

  Kantsa, Aphrodite ^a   Tscheulin, Thomas ^b   Junker, Robert R ^c   Petanidou, Theodora ^b   Kokkini, Stella ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE AEGEAN   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SALZBURG   (Austria)

Author keywords

Alien plants; Balkan Peninsula; Mediterranean Basin; Plants of conservation interest; Urban flora; Urban wildlife refuges

Indexed keywords

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION; URBAN GROWTH;

ALIEN PLANTS; BALKAN PENINSULAS; MEDITERRANEAN BASIN; PLANTS OF CONSERVATION INTEREST; URBAN FLORA; WILDLIFE REFUGE;

ECOSYSTEMS;

BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION PLANNING; INVASIVE SPECIES; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; REFUGE; URBAN DEVELOPMENT; URBAN FORESTRY; URBAN PLANNING; URBANIZATION; WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT;

BALKANS; EPIRUS; GREECE; IOANNINA;

TRACHEOPHYTA;

EID: 84886538722     PISSN: 01692046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.landurbplan.2013.08.013     Document Type: Article

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