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Saline and alkaline vegetation of NE Africa and the Arabian peninsula: An overview

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Biosaline Agriculture and Salinity Tolerance in Plants

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The saline and alkaline vegetation of NE Africa and Arabia is influenced by the diverse geomorphology of the coastline and inland arid plains, and by the distribution patterns of tropical and extra-tropical plant species.A zonation of species from the sea or lake landwards is distinct and is determined by the declining influence of salinity and/or alkalinity, duration and degree of inundation, and structure of the substrate.

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  1. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, TW9 3AB, UK

    Shahina A. Ghazanfar

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  1. Center for Environmental Studies, Science Faculty Building A-Blok, Ege University, 35100, Bornova, Izmir-Turkey

    MĂĽnir Ă–ztĂĽrk

  2. Department of Plant Sciences, The George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

    Yoav Waisel

  3. Department of Botany, University of Karachi, Karachi, 75270, Pakistan

    M. Ajmal Khan

  4. Department of Biology, Faculty of Science and Arts, Mugla University, Mugla-Turkey

    Güven Görk

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Ghazanfar, S.A. (2006). Saline and alkaline vegetation of NE Africa and the Arabian peninsula: An overview. In: Öztürk, M., Waisel, Y., Khan, M.A., Görk, G. (eds) Biosaline Agriculture and Salinity Tolerance in Plants. Birkhäuser Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-7643-7610-4_11

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