Spider assemblages within greenspaces of a deindustrialized urban landscape

Urban Ecosystems

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 793-818

  Burkman, Caitlin E ^a,b   Gardiner, Mary M ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Michigan Department of Agriculture   (United States)

Author keywords

Deindustrialization; Greenspace management; Spiders; Urbanization

Indexed keywords

ARANEAE;

EID: 84939650528     PISSN: 10838155     EISSN: 15731642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11252-014-0430-8     Document Type: Article

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