Use of spatial analysis to test hypotheses on plant recruitment in a hyper-arid ecosystem.

Mounds originating from wind-blown sediment accumulation beneath vegetation (nebkhas) often indicate land degradation in dry areas. Thus far, most nebkha research has focused on individual plants. Here, we aimed to explore population-scale processes (up to scales of about 100 m) that might explain a...

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Main Authors: Jan J Quets, Stijn Temmerman, Magdy I El-Bana, Saud L Al-Rowaily, Abdulaziz M Assaeed, Ivan Nijs
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3948780?pdf=render