Flora and vegetational aspects of miniature dunes in a sand-depleted Haloxylon salicornicum community in the Kuwait desert

Flora

Volumn 193, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 133-140

  Brown, Gary ^a   Porembski, Stefan ^b  

^a KUWAIT UNIVERSITY   (Kuwait)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Desert; Desertification; Haloxylon salicornicum; Kuwait; Micro nebkas; Vegetation dynamics

Indexed keywords

HALOXYLON; HALOXYLON SALICORNICUM;

EID: 0031891997     PISSN: 03672530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0367-2530(17)30829-0     Document Type: Article

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