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A fragile plant cover has developed during the last two decades along the shores of Lake Nasser, the largest impoundment of the River Nile. Development of this vegetation has been influenced by the prevailing environmental factors. The statistical methods (ordination and classification techniques) emphasise the groups of species and elucidate their distribution within the environmental gradients. The applied methods indicate that the distribution of the species is strongly related to the moisture gradient. Some of the soil parameters also contribute to the gradient. The geographical gradient in the distribution of the species is less pronounced.
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Botany Department, Faculty of Science in Aswan, Assiut University
Botany Department, Faculty of Science, Cairo University
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Springuel, I., El-Hadidi, N.M. & Ali, M.M. Vegetation gradient on the shores of Lake Nasser in Egypt. Vegetatio 94, 15–23 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00044912
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