Environmental Factors Influencing Coastal Vegetation Pattern: New Insights from the Mediterranean Basin

Folia Geobotanica

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 493-508

  Fenu, Giuseppe ^a   Carboni, Marta ^b   Acosta, Alicia T R ^b   Bacchetta, Gianluigi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAGLIARI   (Italy)

^b ROMA TRE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

Canonical Correspondence Analysis; Coastal dune plant communities; Coastal environmental gradient; Non metric Multidimensional Scaling; Soil properties; Wind

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; DUNE; ECOSYSTEM RESPONSE; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECT; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENT; PLANT COMMUNITY; SOIL PROPERTY; VEGETATION DYNAMICS; WIND;

MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

EID: 84891625894     PISSN: 12119520     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12224-012-9141-1     Document Type: Article

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