Vegetation diversity of the Brand-se-Baai coastal dune area, west coast, South Africa: A pre-mining benchmark survey for rehabilitation

Land Degradation and Development

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 207-224

  De Villiers, A J ^a   Van Rooyen, M W ^a   Theron, G K ^a   Van Rooyen, N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Braun Blanquet; Coastal dune; Mining; Phytosociology; Plant communities; Rehabilitation; Revegetation; Vegetation classification

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; DUNE; REVEGETATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

SOUTH AFRICA;

EID: 0032695725     PISSN: 10853278     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1099-145X(199905/06)10:3<207::AID-LDR333>3.0.CO;2-0     Document Type: Article

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