Central European cities maintain substantial dragonfly species richness - a chance for biodiversity conservation?

Insect Conservation and Diversity

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 238-246

  Goertzen, Diana ^a   Suhling, Frank ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF BRAUNSCHWEIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Conservation potential; Freshwater; Odonata; Regional species pool; Urban landscape

Indexed keywords

EID: 84929517842     PISSN: 1752458X     EISSN: 17524598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/icad.12102     Document Type: Article

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