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Efforst to increase the rate of artificial recharge through basins often necessitates scrapping and ditching before and during operations. Such operations can result in more or less drastic changes in vegetation (depending on what was there before), characterized by diminisched numbers of species and lowered diversity. Two examples, one from Texas and one from the Netherlands are presented showing how similar treatments cause similar changes in two completely difference plant communities.
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Nomenclature follows Correll & Johnston (1970) for American, Heukels & van Ooststroom (1970) for Dutch species.
I gratefully acknowledge the help of Dr. D. K. Northington, Assistant Professor of Botany and Dr. H. A. Wright, Professor of Range Management, both of Texas Tech University, for their verification of my plant identifications. I also thank Dr. E. van der Maarel for valuable advice on the construction of the manuscript.
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van Hylckama, T.E.A. Changes in vegetation diversity caused by artificial recharge. Vegetatio 39, 53–57 (1979). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00055328
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