Relationship between vegetation dynamics and dune mobility in an arid transgressive coastal system, Maspalomas, Canary Islands

Geomorphology

Volumn 238, Issue , 2015, Pages 160-176

  Hernández Cordero, Antonio I ^a   Hernández Calvento, Luis ^a   Espino, Emma Pérez Chacón ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAS PALMAS DE GRAN CANARIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Burial by sand; Dune mobility rate; Patterns of plant colonization; Plant dynamics

Indexed keywords

ARID ENVIRONMENT; COLONIZATION; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; DUNE; GIS; HEIGHT; POPULATION DECLINE; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL;

CANARY ISLANDS; GRAN CANARIA; LAS PALMAS; MASPALOMAS; SPAIN;

CYPERUS LAEVIGATUS; LAUNAEA ARBORESCENS; TAMARIX CANARIENSIS;

EID: 84925627496     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2015.03.012     Document Type: Article

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