Plant species diversity under desert conditions
- 31 August 1976
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Nature in Oecologia
- Vol. 22 (3), 251-259
- https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00344795
Abstract
Annual species diversity in the northern Dead Sea Valley has a high inverse correlation with soil salinity. Leached silty soil which overlies a gravel layer supports a plant community rich in species. Saline patches are populated with a plant community which is poor in species number and may even be monospecific.This publication has 10 references indexed in Scilit:
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