Roadside and riverside green – urban corridors in the city of Vantaa, Finland

Urban Ecosystems

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 341-354

  Ranta, P ^a   Kesulahti, J ^a   Tanskanen, A ^b   Viljanen, V ^c   Virtanen, T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^c TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Plants; River corridors; Traffic corridors; Urban ecology

Indexed keywords

EID: 84939888002     PISSN: 10838155     EISSN: 15731642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11252-014-0402-z     Document Type: Article

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