The impacts of urban sprawl on ecological connectivity in the Montreal Metropolitan Region

Environmental Science and Policy

Volumn 58, Issue , 2016, Pages 61-73

  Dupras, Jerôme ^a,d   Marull, Joan ^b   Parcerisas, Lluís ^a   Coll, Francesc ^b   Gonzalez, Andrew ^c,d   Girard, Marc ^e   Tello, Enric ^f  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC EN OUTAOUAIS   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d Centre de la Science de la Biodiversité du Québec Université du Québec a' Rimouski   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^f UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Ecological connectivity; Fragmentation; Land use change; Montreal; Urban sprawl

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; ECOLOGICAL CONNECTIVITY; ECOLOGICAL PHENOMENA AND FUNCTIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; HUMAN; INDUSTRIALIZATION; LAND USE; LANDSCAPE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; URBAN AREA; URBAN SPRAWL;

EID: 84955168722     PISSN: 14629011     EISSN: 18736416     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2016.01.005     Document Type: Article

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