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The riparian woodland in the Maltese Islands are very rare and represented by scattered and isolated patches, which are very depauperated and degraded due to intense anthropic activities. Besides, it is to be noted that in this territory the watercourses are short with a limited flow and usually dried in summertime. Currently, this type of vegetation is represented just by two associations, one more thermophilous belonging to Nerio oleandri-Tamaricetea and another more mesic of the Alno glutinosae-Populetea albae.
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Brullo, S., Brullo, C., Cambria, S., Giusso del Galdo, G. (2020). Woody Riparian Vegetation. In: The Vegetation of the Maltese Islands . Geobotany Studies. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-34525-9_13
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