Assigning life-history traits to plant species to better qualify arid land degradation in Presaharian Tunisia

Journal of Arid Environments

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 1-28

  Jauffret, Sandrine ^a   Visser, Marjolein ^b  

^a Observatoire du Sahara et du Sahel   (Tunisia)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Anthropization; Arid lands; Degradation; Disturbance; Grazing value; Life history strategies; Rehabilitation

Indexed keywords

ARID ENVIRONMENT; COMPETITIVE ABILITY; GRAZING; LAND DEGRADATION; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; REVEGETATION;

TUNISIA;

EID: 0037663790     PISSN: 01401963     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-1963(02)00258-6     Document Type: Article

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