Evaluating green infrastructure in urban environments using a multi-taxa and functional diversity approach

Environmental Research

Volumn 147, Issue , 2016, Pages 601-610

  Pinho, Pedro ^a,b   Correia, Otília ^a   Lecoq, Miguel ^c   Munzi, Silvana ^a   Vasconcelos, Sasha ^a,d   Gonçalves, Paula ^a   Rebelo, Rui ^a   Antunes, Cristina ^a,e   Silva, Patrícia ^f   Freitas, Catarina ^f   Lopes, Nuno ^f   Santos Reis, Margarida ^a   Branquinho, Cristina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

^b INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TÉCNICO   (Portugal)

^c INSTITUTO SUPERIOR DE PSICOLOGIA APLICADA   (Portugal)

^d CENTRO DE INVESTIGAÇÃO EM BIODIVERSIDADE E RECURSOS GENÉTICOS   (Portugal)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

^f Climate Energy and Mobility   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Environmental management; Functional groups; Functional traits; Peri urban forests; Urban ecology

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; BIODIVERSITY; DECISION MAKING; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; FUNCTIONAL GROUP; GREENSPACE; HEAT ISLAND; REMEDIATION; URBAN AREA; URBAN ECOSYSTEM; URBAN FORESTRY; URBANIZATION;

ARTHROPOD; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BIRD; BUTTERFLY; CONSTRUCTION WORK AND ARCHITECTURAL PHENOMENA; DECISION MAKING; ECOLOGICAL PROCEDURES; ECOSYSTEM; FORESTRY; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; LICHEN (ORGANISM); MAMMAL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TAXONOMY; URBAN AREA; URBANIZATION; ANIMAL; CITY; FOREST; SOUTHERN EUROPE; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

EUROPE;

ARTHROPODA; AVES; MAMMALIA; PAPILIONOIDEA;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; BIRDS; BUTTERFLIES; CITIES; FORESTS; LICHENS; MAMMALS; MEDITERRANEAN REGION; URBANIZATION;

EID: 84954271161     PISSN: 00139351     EISSN: 10960953     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2015.12.025     Document Type: Article

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