Assessing the drivers shaping global patterns of urban vegetation landscape structure

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 592, Issue , 2017, Pages 171-177

  Dobbs, C ^a   Nitschke, C ^b   Kendal, D ^b  

^a PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE   (Chile)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Climate; GDP; Gini Index; Landscape metrics; Socio ecological systems; Urban ecology; Urban ecosystems

Indexed keywords

ECONOMICS; URBAN PLANNING; VEGETATION;

CLIMATE; GINI INDEX; LANDSCAPE METRICS; SOCIO-ECOLOGICAL SYSTEMS; URBAN ECOLOGY; URBAN ECOSYSTEM;

ECOSYSTEMS;

RAIN;

CLIMATE EFFECT; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; LANDSCAPE STRUCTURE; SOCIOECONOMIC CONDITIONS; URBAN AREA; URBAN ECOSYSTEM; VEGETATION STRUCTURE;

ALTITUDE; ARTICLE; CLIMATE; DEMOGRAPHY; ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; POLICY; SOCIOECONOMICS; URBAN AREA; VEGETATION DYNAMICS; WELLBEING; CITY; ECOSYSTEM; HUMAN; PLANT;

CITIES; CLIMATE; DEMOGRAPHY; ECOSYSTEM; HUMANS; PLANTS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 85015430677     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2017.03.058     Document Type: Article

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