FORUM: Sharing or sparing? How should we grow the world's cities?

Journal of Applied Ecology

Volumn 50, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1161-1168

  Lin, Brenda B ^a   Fuller, Richard A ^a,b  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Ecosystem services; Land use transformation; Landscape configuration; Mosaics; Spatial models; Urban densification

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL LAND; BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; FARMING SYSTEM; FOOD PRODUCTION; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION; GREENSPACE; HABITAT MOSAIC; LAND USE CHANGE; PARK DESIGN; PATCH SIZE; SUBURBANIZATION; URBAN DEVELOPMENT; URBAN GROWTH; WORLD CITY;

EID: 84890859631     PISSN: 00218901     EISSN: 13652664     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1365-2664.12118     Document Type: Article

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