The influence of local elevation on the effects of secondary salinity in remnant eucalypt woodlands: Changes in understorey communities

Plant and Soil

Volumn 265, Issue 1-2, 2004, Pages 253-266

  Cramer, Viki A ^a   Hobbs, Richard J ^a   Atkins, Lyn ^b  

^a MURDOCH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Ecological risk; Shallow water table; Species richness and diversity; Understorey vegetation; Waterlogging

Indexed keywords

ELEVATION; SALINIZATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; UNDERSTORY; WATER TABLE; WOODLAND;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

EUCALYPTUS; EUCALYPTUS WANDOO;

EID: 14744281598     PISSN: 0032079X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11104-005-0361-5     Document Type: Article

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