Disentangling complex landscapes: New insights into arid and semiarid system dynamics

BioScience

Volumn 56, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 491-501

  Peters, Debra P C ^a,c   Bestelmeyer, Brandon T ^a,c   Herrick, Jeffrey E ^a,c   Fredrickson, Ed L ^a,c   Monger, H Curtis ^b,c   Havstad, Kris M ^a,c  

^a Jornada Experimental Range   (United States)

^b NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Jornada Basin LTER (Long Term Ecological Research) Project   (United States)

Author keywords

Alternative states; Cross scale interactions; Desertification; Feedbacks and thresholds; Nonlinear dynamics

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA;

EID: 33744828944     PISSN: 00063568     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1641/0006-3568(2006)56[491:DCLNII]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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