Resilience and resistance of ecosystem functional response to a precipitation pulse in a semi-arid grassland

Journal of Ecology

Volumn 94, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 23-30

  Potts, Daniel L ^a   Huxman, Travis E ^a   Enquist, Brian J ^a   Weltzin, Jake F ^b   Williams, David G ^c  

^a University of Arizona   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

Author keywords

Carbon; Hysteresis; Net ecosystem exchange; PCA; Santa Rita Experimental Range

Indexed keywords

CARBON; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; FUNCTIONAL RESPONSE; GRASSLAND; NET ECOSYSTEM EXCHANGE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY);

ERAGROSTIS; ERAGROSTIS LEHMANNIANA; HETEROPOGON CONTORTUS;

EID: 33645064816     PISSN: 00220477     EISSN: 13652745     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2745.2005.01060.x     Document Type: Article

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