Land sparing is crucial for urban ecosystem services

Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment

Volumn 13, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 387-393

  Stott, Iain ^a   Soga, Masashi ^b   Inger, Richard ^a   Gaston, Kevin J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^b HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; GREENSPACE; URBAN DEVELOPMENT; URBAN ECOSYSTEM; URBAN POPULATION; URBANIZATION;

EID: 84943804551     PISSN: 15409295     EISSN: 15409309     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/140286     Document Type: Article

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