Microenvironmental and vegetational heterogeneity induced by phytogenic nebkhas in an arid coastal ecosystem

Plant and Soil

Volumn 247, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 283-293

  El Bana, Magdy I ^a   Nijs, Ivan ^a   Kockelbergh, Fred ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Facilitation; Microclimate; Microtopography; Nebkha mounds; Ramsar; Retama raetam; Soil nutrients; Vegetational heterogeneity

Indexed keywords

ARID ENVIRONMENT; MICROCLIMATE; MICROTOPOGRAPHY; SOIL NUTRIENT; VEGETATION DYNAMICS; WOODY PLANT;

RETAMA; RETAMA RAETAM; RICKETTSIA SP. PAR;

EID: 0141774031     PISSN: 0032079X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1021548711206     Document Type: Article

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