Building biodiversity: Drivers of bird and butterfly diversity on tropical urban roof gardens

Ecosphere

Volumn 8, Issue 9, 2017, Pages

  Wang, James Wei ^a,b   Poh, Choon Hock ^a   Tan, Chloe Yi Ting ^b   Lee, Vivien Naomi ^b   Jain, Anuj ^b,c   Webb, Edward L ^b  

^a National Parks Board   (Singapore)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^c Birdlife International (Asia)   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Conservation; Green roofs; Reconciliation ecology; Urban ecology; Urban green space

Indexed keywords

EID: 85030232170     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21508925     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ecs2.1905     Document Type: Article

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