Urban heat island mitigation strategies and lizard thermal ecology: landscaping can quadruple potential activity time in an arid city

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  2015

• Venue

  Urban Ecosystems

• Publication date

  2015-04-24

• Fields of study

  Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1007/s11252-015-0460-x
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