Changes in vegetation composition and diversity in relation to morphometry, soil and grazing on a hyper-arid watershed in the central Saudi Arabia

Catena

Volumn 97, Issue , 2012, Pages 41-49

  Al Rowaily, Saud L ^a   El Bana, Magdy I ^a,b   Al Dujain, Fahad A R ^a  

^a KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^b Suez Canal University   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Acacia; Arabian desert; Classification; Ephemeral streams; Ordination; Rangelands

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ARID ENVIRONMENT; ARID REGION; CANONICAL ANALYSIS; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; CORRESPONDENCE ANALYSIS; DESERT; DICOTYLEDON; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; ELEVATION; EPHEMERAL STREAM; GRAZING; HUMAN SETTLEMENT; LAND RECLAMATION; LIVESTOCK; MORPHOMETRY; PLANT COMMUNITY; RANGELAND; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; SOIL TEXTURE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TRANSECT; VEGETATION DYNAMICS; VEGETATION STRUCTURE; VILLAGE; WATERSHED;

SAUDI ARABIA;

ACACIA;

EID: 84861752162     PISSN: 03418162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.catena.2012.05.004     Document Type: Article

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