Acacias in the New Mexico Desert: This attractive, drought tolerant shrub offers food and habitat for wildlife, and even has medicinal uses for humans

Rangelands

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 13-16

  Ishaque, Muhammad ^a   Beck, Reldon ^b   Pieper, Rex ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE   (Pakistan)

^b NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; DROUGHT; SHRUB;

UNITED STATES;

ACACIA; ACACIA CONSTRICTA; ACACIA NEOVERNICOSA; ANIMALIA; LARREA; PROSOPIS; SPINY;

EID: 0036970767     PISSN: 01900528     EISSN: None     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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