Effects of cement-kiln dust pollution on the vegetation and seed-bank species diversity in the eastern desert of Egypt

Environmental Conservation

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 249-258

  Hegazy, Ahmad K ^a  

^a CAIRO UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

cement dust; desert vegetation; pollution; seed bank; soil

Indexed keywords

CEMENT;

AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DESERT; DUST EXPOSURE; EGYPT; NONHUMAN; PLANT SEED; VEGETATION;

EID: 0030478819     PISSN: 03768929     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/s0376892900038868     Document Type: Article

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