Community structure on unusual habitat islands: Quartz-fields in the Succulent Karoo, South Africa

Plant Ecology

Volumn 142, Issue 1-2, 1999, Pages 57-69

  Schmiedel, Ute ^a   Jürgens, Norbert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Convergence; Desert growth forms; Dwarf succulents; Gradients; Multivariate gradient analysis; Winter rainfall desert

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; QUARTZ; SOIL-VEGETATION INTERACTION;

SOUTH AFRICA;

GIBBAEUM;

EID: 0344035662     PISSN: 13850237     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/a:1009818210799     Document Type: Article

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