Environmental relations with desert plant communities and distribution of dominants in Anxi

Acta Botanica Sinica

Volumn 40, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 1047-1052

  Wang, Xiao An ^a  

^a SHAANXI NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Desert plant community; Distribution; Dominant; Resistibility to arid; Resistibility to salt

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DESERT; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ORDINATION; PLANT COMMUNITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

CHINA;

EID: 0032450101     PISSN: 05777496     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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