The maintenance of species diversity by miniature dunes in a sand-depleted Haloxylon salicornicum community in Kuwait

Journal of Arid Environments

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 461-473

  Brown, G ^a   Porembski, S ^b  

^a KUWAIT UNIVERSITY   (Kuwait)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Competition; Conservation; Desertification; Haloxylon salicornicum; Miniature dunes; Species diversity

Indexed keywords

DUNES; SHRUT; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

KUWAIT;

ACER PENSYLVANICUM; AMARANTHACEAE; CHENOPODIACEAE; HALOXYLON; HALOXYLON SALICORNICUM;

EID: 0031282495     PISSN: 01401963     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jare.1997.0286     Document Type: Article

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