Seed traits, landscape and environmental parameters as predictors of species occurrence in fragmented urban railway habitats》.pdfVIP

Basic and Applied Ecology 12 (2011) 29–37 Seed traits, landscape and environmental parameters as predictors of species occurrence in fragmented urban railway habitats ∗ Janneke R. Westermann , Moritz von der Lippe, Ingo Kowarik Department of Ecology, Technische Universität Berlin, Rothenburgstr. 12, 12165 Berlin, Germany Received 20 March 2009; accepted 22 November 2010 Abstract Urbanization particularly promotes habitat fragmentation, which in turn strongly affects biodiversity patterns. A major driver