The effect of removing shrub cover on annual plants and small mammals in a coastal sand dune ecosystem

Biological Conservation

Volumn 94, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 235-242

  Kutiel, Pua ^a   Peled, Yakim ^b   Geffen, Eli ^b  

^a BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Annual plants; Conservation; Management; Mediterranean; Small mammals

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL PLANT; DUNE; HABITAT MANAGEMENT; SHRUB; SMALL MAMMAL;

ISRAEL;

CROCIDURA RUSSULA; GERBILLUS ANDERSONI; MERIONES TRISTRAMI;

EID: 0034020215     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3207(99)00172-X     Document Type: Article

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