Ten years primary succession on a newly created landfill at a lagoon of the Mediterranean Sea (Lake Burullus RAMSAR site)

Flora: Morphology, Distribution, Functional Ecology of Plants

Volumn 207, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 459-468

  El Sheikh, Mohamed A ^a   Al Sodany, Yassin M ^b,d   Eid, Ebrahem M ^b   Shaltout, Kamal H ^c  

^a Damanhour University   (Egypt)

^b Kafrelsheikh University   (Egypt)

^c Tanta University   (Egypt)

^d TAIF UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Annual invasion; Coastal pioneer vegetation; Halophytes; Lake burullus; Seral succession; Wetlands

Indexed keywords

COASTAL LAGOON; DEPOSITION; DREDGING; FLORISTICS; GRASS; HALOPHYTE; LANDFILL; MICROTOPOGRAPHY; PLANT COMMUNITY; PRIMARY SUCCESSION; TWINSPAN;

EGYPT; KAFR ASH SHAYKA; LAKE BURULLUS; MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

ARTHROCNEMUM MACROSTACHYUM; CAKILE MARITIMA; LIMBARDA CRITHMOIDES; MESEMBRYANTHEMUM; MESEMBRYANTHEMUM NODIFLORUM; PHRAGMITES AUSTRALIS; SENECIO; SENECIO GLAUCUS; TETRAENA ALBA; ZYGOPHYLLACEAE;

EID: 84861752858     PISSN: 03672530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.flora.2012.03.009     Document Type: Article

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