Impacts of urban sprawl on species richness of plants, butterflies, gastropods and birds: not only built-up area matters

Urban Ecosystems

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 225-242

  Concepción, Elena D ^a   Obrist, Martin K ^a   Moretti, Marco ^a   Altermatt, Florian ^b,c   Baur, Bruno ^d   Nobis, Michael P ^a  

^a SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

^b SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF AQUATIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Biotic homogenization; Built up area; Human population density; Imperviousness; Time lagged effects; Urban dispersion

Indexed keywords

EID: 84931074728     PISSN: 10838155     EISSN: 15731642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11252-015-0474-4     Document Type: Article

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