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HERBACEOUS COMMUNITY [3 records]

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Record 1 2011-09-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • Botany
DEF

Plants or community that occupy newly available or little differentiated sites, e. g. very open herbaceous formations of moving dunes.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Botanique
DEF

Organisme vivant ou groupement d'organismes en expansion qui s'installe dans un nouveau milieu, parfois abiotique et qui représente le stade initial d'un nouveau peuplement.

Spanish

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Record 2 2010-11-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • Ecology (General)
  • Plant Biology
DEF

A horizontal layer of definite depth in a stand of vegetation, including only plants of the same life-form.

DEF

A structural unit of a major ecological community characterized by relative uniformity of life-form or of height and usually constituting a particular stratum of that community(the herbaceous synusia of open forest).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Écologie (Généralités)
  • Biologie végétale
DEF

Groupe d'organismes ayant les mêmes exigences écologiques et constituant une sous-unité, un étage, au sein d'une biocénose.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Ecología (Generalidades)
  • Biología vegetal
DEF

comunidad formada por especies de un biotipo determinado, de exigencias ecológicas uniformes.

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Record 3 2008-01-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • Ecology (General)
  • Environment
CONT

The composition of the many halophytic herbaceous communities that colonize the upper level of the shoreline varies not only with submersion rate but also with microrelief, soil texture, and soil salinity.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Écologie (Généralités)
  • Environnement
CONT

Ces marais sont communément qualifiés d'«herbaçaies salées» en raison du grand nombre de communautés végétales herbacées qui colonisent le niveau supérieur du rivage et dont la composition varie non seulement en fonction du taux de submersion qu'elles subissent, mais aussi du micro-relief, de la texture et de la salinité du sol.

Spanish

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