Biodiversity functions of urban cemeteries: Evidence from one of the largest Jewish cemeteries in Europe

Urban Forestry and Urban Greening

Volumn 19, Issue , 2016, Pages 68-78

  Kowarik, Ingo ^a,b   Buchholz, Sascha ^a,b   von der Lippe, Moritz ^a,b   Seitz, Birgit ^a,b  

^a TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b BERLIN BRANDENBURG INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED BIODIVERSITY RESEARCH BBIB   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cultural heritage preservation; Graveyard; Habitat analogue; Plant invasion; Urban ecology; Urban forest; Wilderness

Indexed keywords

ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL INVASION; CULTURAL HERITAGE; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; GREENSPACE; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; MANAGEMENT PRACTICE; PRESERVATION; SPECIES RICHNESS; URBAN AREA; URBAN ECOSYSTEM; VEGETATION STRUCTURE; WILDERNESS AREA; WOODLAND;

BERLIN; GERMANY;

ARANEAE; AVES; BRYOPHYTES; CARABIDAE; TRACHEOPHYTA;

EID: 84979573620     PISSN: 16188667     EISSN: 16108167     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ufug.2016.06.023     Document Type: Article

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