Nurse plant interactions in Lophophora diffusa (Cactaceae) in a subtropical desert of Mexico;Interacciones planta-nodriza en Lophophora diffusa (Cactaceae) en un desierto subtropical de México

Biotropica

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 351-356

  Zúñiga, Bertha ^a   Malda, Guadalupe ^a   Suzán, Humberto ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE QUERÉTARO   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Association; Celtis pallida; Larrea tridentata; Lophophora diffusa; Microenvironmental conditions; Nurse plant; Spatial distribution

Indexed keywords

CACTUS; DESERT; ENDEMIC SPECIES; MICROCLIMATE; SHRUBLAND; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; NORTH AMERICA; QUERETARO;

ACACIA; CACTACEAE; CELTIS PALLIDA; LARREA; LARREA TRIDENTATA; LOPHOPHORA; LOPHOPHORA DIFFUSA; LOPHOPHORA WILLIAMSII; MYRTILLOCACTUS GEOMETRIZANS;

EID: 28444495931     PISSN: 00063606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1744-7429.2005.00046.x     Document Type: Article

References (32)

1. ALTESOR, A., E. EZCURRA, Y C. SILVA. 1992. Changes in the photosynthetic metabolism during the early ontogeny of four cactus species. Acta Oecologica 13: 777-785.
2. BRAVO-HOLLIS, E., Y M. H. SÁNCHEZ. 1991. Las Cactáceas de México. Vol III. Universidad Autónoma de México. México.
3. CALLAWAY, R. M. 1995. Positive interactions among plants. Botanical Review. 61: 306-309.
4. CARRILLO-GARCÍA, G. A., J. L. LEÓN de la LUZ, Y. BASHAN, Y G. J. BETHLEN-FALVAY. 1999. Nurse plants, mycorrhizae and plant establishment in a disturbed area of the Sonoran Desert. Restoration Ecology 4: 321-335.
5. CASTELLANOS, A. E., C. TINOCO-OJANGUREN, Y F. MOLINA-FREANER. 1999. Microenvironmental heterogeneity and space utilization by desert vines within their host trees. Annals of Botany 84: 145-153.
6. CODY, M. L. 1993. Do Cholla Cacti (Opuntia spp., subgenus Cylindropuntia) use or need nurse plants in the Mojave Desert?. Journal of Arid Environments 24: 139-154.
7. COX, G. W. 1980. Laboratory manual of general ecology. 2a ed. William C. Brown Company Publishers.
8. DE VIANA, M. L., S. SÜHRING, Y B. F. J. MANLY. 2001. Application of randomization methods to study the association of Trichocereus pasacana (Cactaceae) with potential nurse plant. Plant Ecology 156: 193-197.
9. FRANCO, A. C., Y P. S. NOBEL. 1989. Effect of nurse plants on the microhabitat and growth of cacti. Journal of Ecology 77: 870-886.
10. HACKER, S., Y S. GAINES. 1997. Some implications of direct positive interactions for community species diversity. Ecology 78: 1966-1975.
11. JMP. Statical Discovery Software. 1995. Versión 3. SAS Institute Inc. Cary, N.C. USA.
12. MANDUJANO, M. C., M. FRANCO, J. GOLUBOV, C. MONTAÑA, Y A. FLORES-MARTÍNEZ. 2001. Integration of interannual variability in the demography of a clonal cacti. Ecology 82: 344-359.
13. _, A. FLORES-MARTÍNEZ, J. GOLUBOV y E. EZCURRA. 2002. Spatial distribution of three globose cacti in relation to different nurse-plant canopies and bare areas. The Southwestern Naturalist 131: 459-490.
14. MCAULIFFE, J. R. 1984. Sahuaro-nurse tree associations in the Sonoran Desert cacti. Oecologia 65: 82-85.
15. _. 1990. A rapid survey method for the estimation of density and cover in desert plant communities. Journal of Vegetation Science 1: 653-656.
16. _. 1999. The Sonoran Desert. Landscape complexity an ecological diversity. En R. Robichaux (Ed.). Ecology of Sonoran Desert plants and plants communities, pp. 178-180. University of Arizona Press.
17. NOBEL, P. S. 1980. Morphology, surface temperatures and northern limits of a columnar cacti in the Sonoran Desert. Ecology 61: 1-7.
18. _. 1986. Form and orientation in relation to PAR interception by cacti and agaves. En T. J. Givnish (Ed.). Economy of plant form and function, pp. 83-103. Cambridge University Press.
19. _. 1988. Environmental Biology of Agaves and Cacti. Cambridge University Press.
20. NOM-059-ECOL-2001 Protección ambiental - Especies nativas de México de flora y fauna silvestres - Catálogo de riesgo y especificaciones para su inclusión, exclusión y cambio - Especies en riesgo. Publicada en el Diario Oficial de la Federación el 6 de marzo del 2002.
21. PERRY, J. N. 1998. Measures of spatial pattern for counts. Ecology 79: 1008-1017.
22. _, L. WINDER, J. M. HOLLAND, Y R. D. ALSTON. 1999. Red-blue plots for detecting clusters in count data. Ecology Letters 2: 106-113.
23. _, Y P. DIXON. 2002. A new method for measuring spatial association in ecological count data. Ecoscience 9: 133-141.
24. RODRÍGUEZ, O. E., Y E. EZCURRA. 2000. Distribución espacial en el hábitat de Mammillaria pectinifera y M. carnea en el Valle de Zapotitlán Salinas, Puebla, México. Cactáceas y Suculentas Mexicanas 45: 4-14.
25. SADIE, Spatial Analysis by Distances Indices. 2002. http:/www.rothamsted. bbsrc.ac.uk/pie/sadie/SADIE.
26. SILVERTOWN, J., Y J. B. WILSON. 1994. Community structure in a desert perennial community. Ecology 75: 409-417.
27. SUZÁN, H., G. P. NABHAN, Y D. T. PATTEN. 1994. Nurse plant and floral biology of a rare night-blooming Cereus, Peniocereus striatus (Brandegee) F.Buxbaum. Conservation Biology 8: 461-470.
28. _, _, y _. 1996. The importance of Olneya tesota as a nurse plant in the Sonoran Desert. Journal of Vegetation Science 7: 635-644.
29. TEWKSBURY, J. J., G. P. NABHAN, D. NORMAN, H. SUZAN, J. TUXILL, Y J. DONOVAN. 1999. In situ conservation of wild chiles and their biotic associates. Conservation Biology 13: 98-107.
30. VALIENTE-BANUET, A., Y E. EZCURRA. 1991. Shade as a cause of the association between the cactus Neohuxhaumia tetetzo and the nurse plant Mimosa luisana in the Tehuacán Valley, México. Journal of Ecology 79: 961-971.
31. YEATON, R. I. 1978. A cyclical relationship between Larrea tridentata and Opuntia leptocaullis in the northern Chihuahuan Desert. Journal of Ecology 66: 651-656.
32. ZAMUDIO, S., J. RZEDOWSKI, E. CARRANZA, Y G. CALDERON. 1992. La vegetación del estado de Querétaro. Consejo de Ciencia y Tecnología del Estado de Querétaro. México.