Climatic controls of saguaro (carnegiea gigantea) regeneration: A potential link with El Niño

Physical Geography

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 465-475

  Drezner, Taly Dawn ^a   Balling, Robert C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Age height relationships; Arizona; Carnegiea gigantea; El Ni o; Recruitment; Regeneration; Saguaro cacti; Sonoran Desert

Indexed keywords

CACTUS; CLIMATE EFFECT; DESERT; EL NINO; RECRUITMENT;

UNITED STATES;

CACTACEAE; CARNEGIEA GIGANTEA;

EID: 0142009651     PISSN: 02723646     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2747/0272-3646.23.6.465     Document Type: Article

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