How to improve urban greenspace for woodland birds: Site and local-scale determinants of bird species richness

Urban Ecosystems

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 625-640

  Ferenc, Michal ^a   Sedláček, Ondřej ^a   Fuchs, Roman ^a,b  

^a CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH BOHEMIA   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Bird biodiversity; City; Regression trees; Urban green areas; Vegetation structure

Indexed keywords

EID: 84901259829     PISSN: 10838155     EISSN: 15731642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11252-013-0328-x     Document Type: Article

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