The Trade-off Between Housing Density and Sprawl Area: Minimizing Impacts to Carabid Beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae)
Increasing housing density has negative effects on native biodiversity. This implies that we should build at low density to conserve native species. However, for a given human population, low-density development must cover a large area, resulting in sprawl. A pertinent question is then, at what hous...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Resilience Alliance
2010-12-01
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Series: | Ecology and Society |
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Online Access: | http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol15/iss4/art12/ |