The replacement of arborescent cactus species along a climatic gradient in the southern Chihuahuan Desert: Competitive hierarchies and response to freezing temperatures

Journal of Arid Environments

Volumn 55, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 583-594

  Flores F , J L ^a   Yeaton, R I ^b  

^a INSTITUTO POTOSINO DE INVESTIGACIÓN CIENTÍFICA Y TECNOLÓGICA   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE SAN LUIS POTOSÍ   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Canopy interference; Competition; Disturbance; Freezing damage; Mexican central highlands; Myrtillocactus geometrizans; O. streptacantha; Opuntia leucotricha; Southern Chihuahuan Desert

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; CACTUS; CLIMATE; FREEZING; REPLACEMENT; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

CHIHUAHUAN DESERT; MEXICO; UNITED STATES;

CACTACEAE; MYRTILLOCACTUS; MYRTILLOCACTUS GEOMETRIZANS; OPUNTIA; OPUNTIA LEUCOTRICHA; OPUNTIA STREPTACANTHA;

EID: 0141613628     PISSN: 01401963     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-1963(02)00288-4     Document Type: Article

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