Temporal fluctuations and experimental effects in desert plant communities

Oecologia

Volumn 107, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 568-577

  Guo, Qinfeng ^a,b   Brown, James H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Annual plants; Climatic change; Community structure; Experiment; Temporal variation

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; FORMICIDAE; RODENTIA;

EID: 0029841592     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00333950     Document Type: Article

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