Drivers of plant biodiversity and ecosystem service production in home gardens across the Beijing Municipality of China

Urban Ecosystems

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 741-760

  Clarke, Lorraine Weller ^a   Li, Liangtao ^b   Jenerette, G Darrel ^a   Yu, Zhenrong ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CHINA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Agriculture; Biodiversity; Ecosystem services; Food security; Socioeconomics; Species area relationship

Indexed keywords

EID: 84895911531     PISSN: 10838155     EISSN: 15731642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11252-014-0351-6     Document Type: Article

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