The effects of neighbors on the demography of a dominant desert shrub (Ambrosia dumosa)

Ecological Monographs

Volumn 71, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 491-509

  Miriti, Maria N ^a   Wright, S Joseph ^b   Howe, Henry F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^b SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

Author keywords

Ambrosia dumosa; Desert plants; Elasticity; Habitat specific modeling; Life table response experiment; Matrix projections; Neighbors; Plant demography; Plant population biology; Spatial and temporal variation

Indexed keywords

DEMOGRAPHY; GROWTH; INTERSPECIFIC INTERACTION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SHRUB; SURVIVAL;

CALIFORNIA; COLORADO DESERT; UNITED STATES;

AMBROSIA DUMOSA;

EID: 0035194275     PISSN: 00129615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/0012-9615(2001)071[0491:teonot]2.0.co;2     Document Type: Article

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