Nutrient resorption in shrubs growing by design, and by default in Chihuahuan Desert arroyos

Oecologia

Volumn 128, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 351-359

  Killingbeck, K ^a   Whitford, W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

^b NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Arroyo; Desert shrubs; Nutrients; Resorption; Riparian communities

Indexed keywords

EPHEMERAL STREAM; NUTRIENT DYNAMICS; RESORPTION; RIPARIAN VEGETATION;

UNITED STATES;

BRICKELLIA; BRICKELLIA LACINIATA; CHILOPSIS; CHILOPSIS LINEARIS; FALLUGIA PARADOXA; FLOURENSIA CERNUA; HEDERA; PROSOPIS; PROSOPIS GLANDULOSA; RHUS MICROPHYLLA; RIPARIA;

EID: 0034886402     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004420100668     Document Type: Article

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