Enhancing wasteland vegetation by adding ornamentals: Opportunities and constraints for establishing steppe and prairie species on urban demolition sites

Landscape and Urban Planning

Volumn 126, Issue , 2014, Pages 1-9

  Köppler, Marc Rajan ^a   Kowarik, Ingo ^a,b   Kühn, Norbert ^a   Von der Lippe, Moritz ^a,b  

^a TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b BERLIN BRANDENBURG INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED BIODIVERSITY RESEARCH BBIB   (Germany)

Author keywords

Perennials; Planting schemes; Prairie plantings; Public green; Shrinking cities; Steppe plantings

Indexed keywords

COSTS; DEMOLITION; DROUGHT; WATER SUPPLY;

PERENNIALS; PLANTING SCHEMES; PLANTINGS; PUBLIC GREEN; SHRINKING CITY;

URBAN GROWTH;

DROUGHT STRESS; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; LANDSCAPE PLANNING; PRAIRIE; STEPPE; SURVIVAL; URBAN AREA; WASTELAND;

CENTRAL EUROPE;

EID: 84899944827     PISSN: 01692046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.landurbplan.2014.03.001     Document Type: Article

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