Vegetation patterns as affected by aspect and elevation in small desert mountains

Southwestern Naturalist

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 440-448

  Mata González, Ricardo ^a   Pieper, Rex D ^a   Cárdenas, Manuel M ^a  

^a MWH AMERICAS INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALOYSIA; ALOYSIA WRIGHTII; ARISTIDA; ARISTIDA TERNIPES; BOUTELOUA; BOUTELOUA CURTIPENDULA; BOUTELOUA ERIOPODA; DASYLIRION; DASYLIRION WHEELERI; ERICAMERIA; ERICAMERIA LARICIFOLIA; FOUQUIERIA SPLENDENS; GUTIERREZIA; GUTIERREZIA SAROTHRAE; MUHLENBERGIA; MUHLENBERGIA PORTERI; OPUNTIA;

EID: 0036710573     PISSN: 00384909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3672501     Document Type: Review

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