Author(s): Sania A. Kamal and Salama M. El-Darier
Article publication date: 1995-08-01
Vol. 13 No. 2 (yearly), pp. 337-355.
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Keywords
vegetation, habitat, orchard
Abstract
The objective of this study is to construct a vegetation cover map and to quantify the different levels of human pressures upon land resources in the habitat of inland plateau at El-Hammam sector. The study revealed that overgrazing represents about (77.6%) while crop and orchard cultivations form 22.4% of the area. Species rated as dominants and codominant in the present study were: Anabasis articulata, Thymelaea hirsuta, Plantago albicans, Noaea mucronata and Scorzonera alexandrina. It was found by using spot image that 25.7 km^2 of El-Hammam inland plateau to be completely destroyed; all woody species are suffering from eradication and the surface appears bare and disturbed due to urban land use