The vegetation of linear desert dunes in the north-western negev, Israel

Flora

Volumn 192, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 261-278

  Tielbörger, Katja ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Desert; Plant communities; Sand dunes; Vegetation map

Indexed keywords

DESERT PLANT; DUNE; PLANT COMMUNITY;

ISRAEL; NEGEV DESERT; NIZZANA;

EID: 0342601387     PISSN: 03672530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0367-2530(17)30792-2     Document Type: Article

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