The future of large old trees in urban landscapes

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2014, Pages

  Le Roux, Darren S ^a   Ikin, Karen ^a   Lindenmayer, David B ^a   Manning, Adrian D ^a   Gibbons, Philip ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED TREE; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BIODIVERSITY; HABITAT STRUCTURE; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PLANT REGENERATION; PREDICTION; SEEDLING; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SIMULATION; URBAN AREA; CITY PLANNING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; STATISTICAL MODEL; TREE; URBANIZATION;

AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY; CITY PLANNING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; LOGISTIC MODELS; TREES; URBANIZATION;

EID: 84903289139     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0099403     Document Type: Article

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