Contrasting demographies and persistence of rare annual plants in highly variable environments

Plant Ecology

Volumn 183, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 157-170

  Fox, Laurel R ^a   Steele, Heather N ^a,b   Holl, Karen D ^a   Fusari, Margaret H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Chorizanthe; Coexistence; Demography; Gilia; Rare plants; Variable environments

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL PLANT; COEXISTENCE; ENDANGERED SPECIES; PERSISTENCE; SPATIAL VARIATION; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

CHORIZANTHE; CHORIZANTHE PUNGENS PUNGENS; GILIA TENUIFLORA ARENARIA;

EID: 33745081754     PISSN: 13850237     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11258-005-9014-2     Document Type: Article

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