Heterogeneous urban green areas are bird diversity hotspots: insights using continental-scale citizen science data

Springer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 34 Số 6 - Trang 1231-1246 - 2019
Corey T. Callaghan1, Gilad Bino1, Richard E. Major1, John M. Martin1, Mitchell Lyons1, Richard T. Kingsford1
1Centre for Ecosystem Science, School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, UNSW Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia

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