Effects of urban structure on plant species richness in a large European city

Urban Ecosystems

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 427-444

  Schmidt, Katharina J ^a   Poppendieck, Hans Helmut ^a   Jensen, Kai ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Ellenberg indicator values; Floristic mapping; Species richness; Spontaneous vegetation; Urban ecology

Indexed keywords

EID: 84901287545     PISSN: 10838155     EISSN: 15731642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11252-013-0319-y     Document Type: Article

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