Land sharing vs. land sparing: Does the compact city reconcile urban development and biodiversity conservation?

Journal of Applied Ecology

Volumn 51, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 1378-1386

  Soga, Masashi ^a,b   Yamaura, Yuichi ^a   Koike, Shinsuke ^c   Gaston, Kevin J ^b  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^c TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

City construction; Global urbanization; Human population; Land sharing; Land sparing; Sustainable cities; Urban nature

Indexed keywords

CARABIDAE; HEXAPODA; PAPILIONOIDEA;

EID: 84925329329     PISSN: 00218901     EISSN: 13652664     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1365-2664.12280     Document Type: Article

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