Plant distribution and dispersal mechanisms at the Hassayampa River Preserve, Arizona, USA

Global Ecology and Biogeography

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 205-217

  Drezner, Taly Dawn ^a   Fall, Patricia L ^a   Stromberg, Juliet C ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anemochory; Animal dispersal; Populus Prosopis; Riparian; Salix; Sonoran desert; Succession; Wind Dispersal; Zoochory

Indexed keywords

PLANT COMMUNITY; SEED DISPERSAL; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

UNITED STATES;

ANIMALIA; POPULUS; PROSOPIS; RIPARIA; SALIX;

EID: 0035013263     PISSN: 1466822X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1466-822x.2001.00216.x     Document Type: Article

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