TY - JOUR
T1 - Plant recolonization after severe degradation
T2 - A case study in the Negev highlands of Israel
AU - Agami, M.
AU - Eshel, A.
AU - Waisel, Y.
PY - 1998/3
Y1 - 1998/3
N2 - Desert plant communities that have been destroyed have recuperated within approximately 30 years. The swift recovery of plant cover is enabled, in part, by the inherent fast rate of re-establishment and turn-over of perennial plants of such communities, selected for those traits during thousands of years of intensive human interference. Such acquired traits are characteristic of several dessert shrub communities, e.g. Serphidium sieberi and Zygophyllum dumosum associations. These shrub associations are stable, though the turn, over rate of their constituent species is very rapid, i:e. 3-5 years for the various species of Helianthemum and Reaumuria.
AB - Desert plant communities that have been destroyed have recuperated within approximately 30 years. The swift recovery of plant cover is enabled, in part, by the inherent fast rate of re-establishment and turn-over of perennial plants of such communities, selected for those traits during thousands of years of intensive human interference. Such acquired traits are characteristic of several dessert shrub communities, e.g. Serphidium sieberi and Zygophyllum dumosum associations. These shrub associations are stable, though the turn, over rate of their constituent species is very rapid, i:e. 3-5 years for the various species of Helianthemum and Reaumuria.
KW - Desert shrubs
KW - Helianthemum
KW - Reaumuria
KW - Recolonization
KW - Succession
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=0032029445&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1006/jare.1997.0357
DO - 10.1006/jare.1997.0357
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AN - SCOPUS:0032029445
SN - 0140-1963
VL - 38
SP - 411
EP - 419
JO - Journal of Arid Environments
JF - Journal of Arid Environments
IS - 3
ER -