Plant species distribution and spatial habitat heterogeneity in the landscape of urbanizing desert ecosystems in Egypt

Urban Ecosystems

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 585-616

  El Ghani, Monier Abd ^a   Bornkamm, Reinhard ^b   El Sawaf, Nadia ^a   Turky, Hamdiya ^a  

^a CAIRO UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^b TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Anthropogenic habitats; DCA; Egypt; Floristic composition; Ruderal vegetation; Synanthropic flora; TWINSPAN; Urban flora

Indexed keywords

ACER PENSYLVANICUM; AMARANTHACEAE; ANIMALIA; APIACEAE; ASTERACEAE; BRASSICACEAE; CYPERACEAE; EUPHORBIA; EUPHORBIACEAE; FABACEAE; MAGNOLIOPHYTA; POACEAE; SOLANACEAE; TRACHEOPHYTA; XEROPHYTA;

EID: 82655172540     PISSN: 10838155     EISSN: 15731642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11252-011-0188-1     Document Type: Article

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