Scaling up from gardens: biodiversity conservation in urban environments
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Scaling up from gardens: biodiversity conservation in urban environments.
As urbanisation increases globally and the natural environment becomes increasingly fragmented, the importance of urban green spaces for biodiversity conservation grows. In many countries, private gardens are a major component of urban green space and can provide considerable biodiversity benefits. Gardens and adjacent habitats form interconnected networks and a landscape ecology framework is n...
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عنوان ژورنال: Trends in Ecology & Evolution
سال: 2010
ISSN: 0169-5347
DOI: 10.1016/j.tree.2009.07.016