Carabid beetles in green infrastructures: the importance of management practices for improving the biodiversity in a metropolitan city

Urban Ecosystems

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 661-673

  Do, Yuno ^a   Lineman, Maurice ^a   Joo, Gea Jae ^a  

^a Pusan National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Abandonment area; Carabid beetle; Green infrastructure; Management practice; Spontaneous succession; Urbanization

Indexed keywords

EID: 84892695605     PISSN: 10838155     EISSN: 15731642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11252-014-0348-1     Document Type: Article

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