Primary colonization and breakdown of igneous rocks by endemic, succulent elephant trees (Pachycormus discolor) of the deserts in Baja California, Mexico

Naturwissenschaften

Volumn 93, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 344-347

  Bashan, Yoav ^a   Vierheilig, Horst ^b   Salazar, Bernardo G ^a   De Bashan, Luz E ^a  

^a CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIONES BIOLÓGICAS DEL NOROESTE   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RAIN;

COLONIZATION; DESERT; ENDEMIC SPECIES; IGNEOUS ROCK; TREE;

ARTICLE; DESERT; DESERT CLIMATE; MEXICO; NONHUMAN; NUTRIENT; PLANT GROWTH; PLANT LEAF; ROCK; SURVIVAL; TREE; VEGETATION; VOLCANIC ASH; WEATHERING;

ACCLIMATIZATION; CACTACEAE; CALIFORNIA; DESERT CLIMATE; ECOSYSTEM; MEXICO; PINUS; SOIL; TREES;

BAJA CALIFORNIA [(STT) MEXICO]; MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; NORTH AMERICA;

CACTACEAE;

EID: 33745443808     PISSN: 00281042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00114-006-0111-4     Document Type: Article

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