Potential for using facilitation by grasses to establish shrubs on a semiarid degraded steppe

Ecological Applications

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 1641-1655

  Maestre, Fernando T ^a   Bautista, Susana ^a,b   Cortina, Jordi ^a   Bellot, Juan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALICANTE   (Spain)

^b FUNDACIÓN CENTRO DE ESTUDIOS AMBIENTALES DEL MEDITERRÁNEO CEAM   (Spain)

Author keywords

Facilitation; Island of fertility; Medicago arborea; Pistacia lentiscus; Plant species interactions; Quercus coccifera; Restoration; Semiarid zones; Southeastern Spain; Steppes; Stipa tenacissima

Indexed keywords

GRASS; REVEGETATION; SEMIARID REGION; SHRUB; STEPPE;

(SOUTHEAST); SPAIN;

MEDICAGO ARBOREA; PISTACIA LENTISCUS; POACEAE; QUERCUS COCCIFERA; STIPA TENACISSIMA;

EID: 0035665826     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/1051-0761(2001)011[1641:PFUFBG]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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