Global drivers and tradeoffs of three urban vegetation ecosystem services

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 11, 2014, Pages

  Dobbs, Cynnamon ^a,b   Nitschke, Craig R ^b   Kendal, Dave ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BIOPHYSICS; CARBON STORAGE; CLIMATE; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; HABITAT; HIDDEN MARKOV MODEL; LANDSCAPE; MOISTURE; MORPHOLOGY; POPULATION GROWTH; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SOCIAL EVOLUTION; SOCIOECONOMICS; TOPOGRAPHY; URBAN AREA; URBANIZATION; VEGETATION; HUMAN;

CLIMATE; ECOSYSTEM; HUMANS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; URBANIZATION;

EID: 84913557562     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0113000     Document Type: Article

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