Vegetation on and around large-scale buildings positively influences native tropical bird abundance and bird species richness

Urban Ecosystems

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2019, Pages 213-225

  Belcher, Richard N ^a   Sadanandan, Keren R ^b   Goh, Emmanuel R ^a,b   Chan, Jie Yi ^a,b   Menz, Sacha ^a   Schroepfer, Thomas ^a,c  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^c SINGAPORE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY AND DESIGN   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Bird; Building; Dense and green; Tropical ecosystems; Urban ecology; Urban planning

Indexed keywords

EID: 85055685158     PISSN: 10838155     EISSN: 15731642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11252-018-0808-0     Document Type: Article

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