Chemistry, ecology and seasonal succession of Charophytes in the Al-Kharj Irrigation Canal, Saudi Arabia

Hydrobiologia

Volumn 333, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 129-137

  Hussain, M I ^a   Khoja, Talat M ^a   Guerlesquin, M ^b  

^a KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^b Institut de Recherche Fondamentale et Appliquée   (France)

Author keywords

Calcium carbonate; Chara benthamii; Chara canal; Charophytes; Periodicity; Vegetation mapping

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM CARBONATE; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; POPULATION DENSITY; SEASONALITY; SUCCESSION;

SAUDI ARABIA, AL-KHARJ IRRIGATION CANAL;

CHARA BENTHAMII; CHARA FIBROSA; CHARA GLOBULARIS; CHARA VULGARIS CONTRARIA; CHARA VULGARIS GYMNOPHYLLA; CHARA VULGARIS LONGIBRACTEATA; CHARA ZEYLANICA; CHARA ZEYLANICA DIAPHANA; CHAROPHYCEAE;

EID: 0030303116     PISSN: 00188158     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00017575     Document Type: Article

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