Community composition and population dynamics in response to artificial rainfall in an undisturbed desert annual community in Kuwait

Basic and Applied Ecology

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 145-156

  Brown, Gary ^a,b  

^a KUWAIT UNIVERSITY   (Kuwait)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROSTOCK   (Germany)

Author keywords

Biomass production; Desert annuals; Desert ecology; Germination response; Rhanterium epapposum; Seedling survival; Species diversity

Indexed keywords

PLANTAGO; PLANTAGO BOISSIERI; RHANTERIUM;

EID: 0036212981     PISSN: 14391791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1078/1439-1791-00097     Document Type: Article

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