Ancient urban ecology reconstructed from archaeozoological remains of small mammals in the Near East.

Modern rapidly expanding cities generate intricate patterns of species diversity owing to immense complexity in urban spatial structure and current growth trajectories. We propose to identify and uncouple the drivers that give rise to these patterns by looking at the effect of urbanism on species di...

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Main Authors: Lior Weissbrod, Dan Malkinson, Thomas Cucchi, Yuval Gadot, Israel Finkelstein, Guy Bar-Oz
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3951428?pdf=render