Changes in plant diversity along an urban-rural gradient in an expanding city in Kazakhstan, Western Siberia

Landscape and Urban Planning

Volumn 132, Issue , 2014, Pages 111-120

  Vakhlamova, Tatyana ^a   Rusterholz, Hans Peter ^a   Kanibolotskaya, Yuliya ^b   Baur, Bruno ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b S TORAIGHYROV PAVLODAR STATE UNIVERSITY   (Kazakhstan)

Author keywords

Alien species; Plant evolutionary strategy; Plant life form; Steppe grassland; Urbanization

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL ROBOTS; AGRICULTURE; ECOSYSTEMS; EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS; LAND USE; PLANTS (BOTANY);

ALIEN SPECIES; EVOLUTIONARY STRATEGIES; PLANT LIFE; STEPPE GRASSLAND; URBANIZATION;

RURAL AREAS;

ABUNDANCE; ASSESSMENT METHOD; BIOINDICATOR; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION; EVOLUTIONARILY STABLE STRATEGY; INVASIVE SPECIES; LAND USE CHANGE; PLANT COMMUNITY; SPECIES DIVERSITY; STEPPE; URBANIZATION;

KAZAKHSTAN; SIBERIA;

EID: 84907515371     PISSN: 01692046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.landurbplan.2014.08.014     Document Type: Article

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