Biocultural homogenization in Urban settings: Public knowledge of birds in city parks of Santiago, Chile

Sustainability (Switzerland)

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2017, Pages

  Celis Diez, Juan L ^a   Muñoz, Cesar E ^b   Abades, Sebastián ^c   Marquet, Pablo A ^b,d   Armesto, Juan J ^b,d,e  

^a PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE VALPARAÍSO   (Chile)

^b PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE   (Chile)

^c UNIVERSIDAD MAYOR   (Chile)

^d INSTITUTO DE ECOLOGÍA Y BIODIVERSIDAD IEB   (Chile)

^e CARY INSTITUTE OF ECOSYSTEM STUDIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Biocultural homogenization; Biotic homogenization; Socioecology; Urban birds; Urban ecology

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOLOGY; BIOTIC FACTOR; BIRD; CULTURAL CHANGE; GREENSPACE; HOMOGENEITY; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEM; PARK DESIGN; PERCEPTION; SAMPLING; SOCIOBIOLOGY; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; URBAN AREA; URBAN ECOSYSTEM; URBANIZATION;

CHILE; METROPOLITANA;

AVES;

EID: 85017354236     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20711050     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/su9040485     Document Type: Article

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