Mortality over 16 years of cacti in a burnt desert grassland

Plant Ecology

Volumn 183, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 9-17

  Thomas, P A ^a  

^a KEELE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cactus; Coryphantha; Echinocereus; Echinomastus; Fire; Mammillaria

Indexed keywords

CACTUS; DESERT; FIRE; GRASSLAND; MORTALITY;

CACTACEAE; ECHINOCEREUS PECTINATUS; ESCOBARIA VIVIPARA VIVIPARA; MAMMILLARIA HEYDERI; PECTINATUS; SCLEROCACTUS INTERTEXTUS INTERTEXTUS;

EID: 33745080547     PISSN: 13850237     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11258-005-9001-7     Document Type: Article

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