Compact cities or sprawling suburbs? Optimising the distribution of people in cities to maximise species diversity

Journal of Applied Ecology

Volumn 55, Issue 5, 2018, Pages 2320-2331

  Geschke, Andrew ^a   James, Simon ^a   Bennett, Andrew F ^b   Nimmo, Dale G ^c  

^a DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c CHARLES STURT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

avifauna; biodiversity indicator; geometric mean of abundance; land sharing; land sparing; urban design; urban development; urbanisation

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ADDITIVE; AVIFAUNA; BIODIVERSITY; BIRD; GEOMETRY; OPTIMIZATION; POPULATION DENSITY; SHIFT-SHARE ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SUBURBAN AREA; URBAN DESIGN; URBAN DEVELOPMENT; URBANIZATION;

AUSTRALIA; MELBOURNE; VICTORIA [AUSTRALIA];

AVES;

EID: 85052131276     PISSN: 00218901     EISSN: 13652664     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1365-2664.13183     Document Type: Article

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