Weed communities of date-palm orchards in the Feiran Oasis (south Sinai, Egypt)

Fragmenta Floristica et Geobotanica

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 257-271

  Abd El Ghani, Monier M ^a,b  

^a TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b CAIRO UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Disturbance; Diversity; Egypt; PCA; Phytosociology; Sinai; Weeds

Indexed keywords

EID: 11544342303     PISSN: 0015931X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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