Open space as an armature for urban expansion| A future scenarios study to assess the effects of spatial concepts on wildlife populations

<p> Urbanization is one of the biggest threats to biodiversity. To address this problem, landscape planners have increasingly adopted landscape ecology as a theoretical basis for planning. They use spatial concepts that express principles of landscape ecology in diagrammatic form to create fra...

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Main Author: Penteado, Homero Marconi
Language:EN
Published: University of Oregon 2014
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Online Access:http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3619590