Annual plant community responses to density of small-scale soil disturbances in the Negev Desert of Israel

Oecologia

Volumn 114, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 106-117

  Boeken, Bertrand ^a   Lipchin, Clive ^a   Gutterman, Yitzchak ^a   Van Rooyen, Noel ^b  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Plant density; Plant productivity; Slope direction; Soil disturbance; Species richness

Indexed keywords

DIGGING; PLANT COMMUNITY; SOIL DISTURBANCE;

ISRAEL, NEGEV DESERT;

EID: 0031919084     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004420050426     Document Type: Article

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