Community complexity: Stratifying monitoring schemes within a desert sand dune landscape

Journal of Arid Environments

Volumn 69, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 315-330

  Barrows, C W ^a   Allen, M F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Biodiversity management; Conservation; Eolian sand communities; Monitoring; Temporal and spatial variation

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DESERT; DUNE; ENDANGERED SPECIES; LANDSCAPE; LIZARD; SHRUB; SPECIES CONSERVATION;

CALIFORNIA; COACHELLA VALLEY; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

ASTRAGALUS (ANGIOSPERM); ASTRAGALUS LENTIGINOSUS; SQUAMATA; UMA INORNATA;

EID: 33845647291     PISSN: 01401963     EISSN: 1095922X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jaridenv.2006.09.014     Document Type: Article

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