Vegetation in Bangalore’s Slums: Composition, Species Distribution, Density, Diversity, and History

Environmental Management

Volumn 55, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 1390-1401

  Gopal, Divya ^a,b   Nagendra, Harini ^c,d   Manthey, Michael ^b  

^a TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GREIFSWALD   (Germany)

^c AZIM PREMJI UNIVERSITY   (India)

^d INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

India; Poverty; Urban ecology; Urban vegetation

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; ECOLOGY; FORESTRY; HOUSING; LAND USE; PLANTS (BOTANY); VEGETATION;

HISTORIC DEVELOPMENT; INDIA; POVERTY; RESIDENTIAL NEIGHBORHOODS; SPECIES DISTRIBUTIONS; URBAN ECOLOGY; URBAN VEGETATION; VEGETATION DIVERSITIES;

POPULATION DISTRIBUTION;

ASSESSMENT METHOD; BIODIVERSITY; DOMINANCE; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; EVERGREEN TREE; GREENSPACE; INTRODUCED SPECIES; NEIGHBORHOOD; PLANT COMMUNITY; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; POVERTY; SHRUB; SUSTAINABILITY; TREE PLANTING; URBAN DEVELOPMENT; URBAN ECONOMY; VEGETATION STRUCTURE;

ALBIZIA; ALBIZIA SAMAN; ARTICLE; COCONUT; DENSITY; FICUS RELIGIOSA; HERB; INDIA; INTRODUCED SPECIES; LAND USE; MANGO; MORINGA OLEIFERA; NEIGHBORHOOD; NONHUMAN; PONGAMIA PINNATA; RESIDENTIAL AREA; SHRUB; SPECIES COMPOSITION; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; VEGETATION HISTORY; CITY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; POVERTY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TREE; URBANIZATION;

BANGALORE; INDIA; KARNATAKA;

COCOS NUCIFERA; FICUS RELIGIOSA; MORINGA OLEIFERA;

CITIES; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; INDIA; INTRODUCED SPECIES; POVERTY AREAS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TREES; URBANIZATION;

EID: 84929838597     PISSN: 0364152X     EISSN: 14321009     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00267-015-0467-3     Document Type: Article

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