Water relations and community composition in three blue fan palm oases across the Californian-Sonoran biome transition

Southwestern Naturalist

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 191-200

  Franco Vizcaíno, Ernesto ^a   López Beltrán, Ana Cecilia ^b   Salazar Ceseña, Mario ^a  

^a CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIÓN CIENTÍFICA Y DE EDUCACIÓN SUPERIOR DE ENSENADA   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE BAJA CALIFORNIA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

JUNIPERUS; TILLANDSIA LINEATISPICA; TRACHYCARPUS;

EID: 34447258636     PISSN: 00384909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1894/0038-4909(2007)52[191:WRACCI]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

References (32)

1. ARRIAGA, L., S. DIAZ, R. DOMÍNGUEZ, AND J. L. LEÓN. 1997. La composición floristica y vegetación. In: L. Arriaga and R. Rodríguez-Estrella, editors. Los oasis de la Península de Baja California. Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas del Noroeste, La Paz, Baja California Sur. Pages 69-106.
2. AXELROD, D. I. 1979. Age and origin of Sonoran Desert vegetation. Occasional Papers of the California Academy of Sciences, Number 132, San Francisco.
3. CASTETTER, E. F., AND W. H. BELL. 1951. Yuman Indian agriculture: primitive subsistence on the Lower Colorado and Gila rivers. University of New Mexico Press, Santa Fe.
4. CORNETT, J. W. 1989. Desert palm oasis. Palm Springs Desert Museum, Palm Springs, California.
5. FELGER, R. S. 1999. The palms (Arecaceae) of Sonora, Mexico. Aliso 18(1):1-18.
6. FRANCO-LÓPEZ, J., AND G. DE LA CRUZ. 1985. Manual de Ecología, first edition. Trillas, Mexico, D.F.
7. FRANCO-VIZCAÍNO, E., M. ESCOTO- RODRÍGUEZ, J. SOSA-RAMÍREZ, AND R. A. MINNICH. 2002. Water balance at the southern limit of the Californian mixed-conifer forest, and implications for extreme-deficit watersheds. Arid Land Research and Management 16:133-147.
8. GARDNER, E. S. 1961. Hovering over Baja. William Morrow and Co., New York.
9. GASTIL, R. G., R. P. PHILIPS, AND E. C. ALLISON. 1975. Reconnaissance geology of the State of Baja California. Geological Society of America. Memoir 140, Boulder, Colorado.
10. GENTRY, H. S. 1978. The agaves of Baja California. Occasional Papers of the California Academy of Sciences, Number 130, San Francisco.
11. GOSZ, J. R. 1992. Ecology of biome transitions. In: A. J. Hansen and F. DiCastri, editors. Ecological Studies 92, Landscape boundaries: consequences for biotic diversity and ecological flows. Springer Verlag, New York. Pages 55-75.
12. HENDERSON, R. 1964. Palm hunter in the wastelands. Principes 8:14-23.
13. HENDERSON, R. 1971. Palm canyons of Baja California. La Siesta Press, Glendale, California.
14. HICKMAN, J. C., editor. 1993. The Jepson manual. Higher plants of California. University of California Press, Berkeley.
15. INEGI. 2001. Síntesis de información geográfica del Estado de Baja California. Aguascalientes, Aguascalientes, Mexico.
16. LOPÉZ BELTRAN, A. C. 2003. Contenido hídrico en el suelo y estructura de la vegetación en tres oasis con palma azul (Brahea armata) al sur de la Sierra de San Pedro Mártir. Unpublished licentiate thesis, Universidad Autónoma de Baja California, Ensenada.
17. MAYA, Y., R. CORIA, AND R. DOMINGUEZ. 1997. Caracterización de los oasis. In: L. Arriaga and R. Rodríguez- Estrella, editors. Los oasis de la Península de Baja California. Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas del Noroeste, La Paz, Baja California Sur. Pages 5-25.
18. MILLAR, C. I. 1996. Tertiary vegetation history. Sierra Nevada Ecosystems Project: final report to Congress, volume II. Assessments and scientific basis for management options. Centers for Water and Wildland Resources, University of California, Davis.
19. MINNICH, R. A., AND E. FRANCO- VIZCAÍNO. 1998. Land of chamise and pines: historical accounts and current status of the vegetation of northern Baja California. University of California Publications in Botany, Volume 80.
20. MINNICH, R. A., AND E. FRANCO- VIZCAÍNO. 2005. Baja California's enduring vegetation: early accounts, human impacts and conservation status. In: J.-L. Cartron, G. Ceballos, and R. Felger, editors. Biodiversity, ecosystems and conservation in northern Mexico. Oxford University Press, New York. Pages 370-386.
21. MIRANDA, F., S. REYES-COCA, J. G. ESPINOZA I, AND J. GARCIA LÓPEZ. 1991. Climatología de la región noroeste de México. Parte II. Temperatura: series de tiempo del valor mensual y estadísticas del año climatológico. Reporte Técnico CIOFT9108. Centro de Investigación Científica y de Educación Superior de Ensenada, Ensenada, Baja California, México.
22. MORAN, R. 1978. Palms in Baja California. Principes 22(2):47-55.
23. REBMAN, J. P. 1995. Biosystematics of Opuntia subgenus Cylindropuntia (Cactaceae), the chollas of Lower California, Mexico. Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, Arizona State University, Tempe.
24. RISSER, P. G. 1995. The status of the science of examining ecotones. BioScience 45:318-325.
25. SCHNABEL, R. O. 1964. Palms along Mexico's west coast highway. Principes 8:4-13.
26. SCHWENKMEYER, D. 1986. The palm oasis: our tropical vestige. Environment Southwest 514:18-23.
27. SHREVE, F., AND I. L. WIGGINS. 1964. Vegetation and flora of the Sonoran Desert, volume 1. Stanford University Press, Stanford, California.
28. STRONG, C. W. 1966. An improved method of obtaining density from line-transect data. Ecology 47:311-313.
29. THORNE, R. F. 1986. A historical sketch of the vegetation of the Mojave and Colorado deserts of the American Southwest. Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 73:642-651.
30. UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY. 2006. Jepson online interchange for California floristics. http://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/ (Accessed August 2006)
31. VOGL, R. J., AND L. T. MCHARGUE. 1966. Vegetation of California fan palm oases on the San Andreas fault. Ecology 47:532-540.
32. WIGGINS, I. L. 1980. Flora of Baja California. Stanford University Press, Stanford, California.