Climatic and biotic stochasticity: Disparate causes of convergent demographies in rare, sympatric plants

Conservation Biology

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1556-1561

  Fox, Laurel R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Annual plants; Biotic stochasticity; Chorizanthe; Climatic stochasticity; Gilia; Herbivory; Monterey spineflower; Plant demography; Plant rarity; Sand gilia

Indexed keywords

WATER;

ANNUAL PLANT; CLIMATE EFFECT; DEMOGRAPHY; HERBIVORY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RAINFALL; RARITY; REPRODUCTION; STOCHASTICITY; SURVIVAL; SYMPATRY;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLASSIFICATION; CLIMATE; DEMOGRAPHY; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; PLANT; REPRODUCTION; STATISTICS;

CLIMATE; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; DEMOGRAPHY; ECOSYSTEM; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PLANTS; REPRODUCTION; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES; WATER;

ARENARIA (CARYOPHYLLACEAE); CHORIZANTHE; CHORIZANTHE PUNGENS; CHORIZANTHE PUNGENS PUNGENS; GILIA LEPTOMERIA; GILIA TENUIFLORA ARENARIA;

EID: 37349025470     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: 15231739     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2007.00800.x     Document Type: Article

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