Biodiverse cities: the nursery industry, homeowners, and neighborhood differences drive urban tree composition

Ecological Monographs

Volumn 88, Issue 2, 2018, Pages 259-276

  Avolio, Meghan L ^a,d   Pataki, Diane E ^a   Trammell, Tara L E ^b   Endter Wada, Joanna ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^c UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

city trees; ecosystem service based traits; horticultural products; plant nurseries; resident preferences; residential yards; socio environmental research; street trees; tree diversity

Indexed keywords

ARID REGION; BIODIVERSITY; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; HOMEOWNER; HORTICULTURE; HOUSEHOLD INCOME; NEIGHBORHOOD; NURSE PLANT; RESEARCH WORK; RESIDENTIAL LOCATION; SEMIARID REGION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; URBAN ECOSYSTEM;

SALT LAKE VALLEY; UNITED STATES; UTAH;

EID: 85041727200     PISSN: 00129615     EISSN: 15577015     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ecm.1290     Document Type: Article

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