Advancing Urban Ecology toward a Science of Cities

BioScience

Volumn 66, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 198-212

  McPhearson, Timon ^a   Pickett, Steward T A ^b   Grimm, Nancy B ^c,d   Niemelä, Jari ^e   Alberti, Marina ^f   Elmqvist, Thomas ^g   Weber, Christiane ^h   Haase, Dagmar ⁱ   Breuste, Jürgen ^k   Qureshi, Salman ^i,j  

^a NEW SCHOOL FOR SOCIAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^b CARY INSTITUTE OF ECOSYSTEM STUDIES   (United States)

^c School of Life Sciences   (United States)

^d ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^f UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^g STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^h CNRS   (France)

ⁱ HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^j UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

^k UNIVERSITY OF SALZBURG   (Austria)

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Author keywords

comparative research; complexity; conceptual frameworks; urban ecology; urban systems

Indexed keywords

EID: 84961655133     PISSN: 00063568     EISSN: 15253244     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/biosci/biw002     Document Type: Review

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