The effect of recreational impacts on soil and vegetation of stabilised Coastal Dunes in the Sharon Park, Israel

Ocean and Coastal Management

Volumn 42, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 1041-1060

  Kutiel, P ^a   Zhevelev, H ^a   Harrison, R ^a  

^a BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DUNE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; RECREATIONAL ACTIVITY; SOIL ECOSYSTEM; STABILIZATION; VEGETATION COVER;

ISRAEL;

COASTAL SAND DUNES;

COASTAL ZONES; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; SAND; VEGETATION;

COASTAL ENGINEERING;

EID: 0033237290     PISSN: 09645691     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0964-5691(99)00060-5     Document Type: Article

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