Columnar cacti-shrub relationships in an Andean semiarid valley in western Venezuela

Plant Ecology

Volumn 196, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 153-161

  Larrea Alcázar, Daniel M ^a,b   Soriano, Pascual J ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE LOS ANDES   (Venezuela)

^b UNIVERSIDAD MAYOR DE SAN ANDRÉS   (Bolivia)

Author keywords

Andes; Facilitation; Habitat mosaic; Semiarid zone; Spatial associations

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; CACTUS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ECOSYSTEM MANAGEMENT; FACILITATION; HABITAT MOSAIC; NURSE PLANT; PERENNIAL PLANT; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); SEMIARID REGION; SHRUB; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

SOUTH AMERICA; VENEZUELA;

CACTACEAE; CAPPARIS; CAPPARIS ODORATISSIMA; CEREUS REPANDUS; CORDIA; CORDIA CURASSAVICA; CROTON RHAMNIFOLIUS; JATROPHA; JATROPHA GOSSYPIIFOLIA; PILOSOCEREUS; PROSOPIS; PROSOPIS JULIFLORA; SENNA; SENNA BICAPSULARIS; STENOCEREUS GRISEUS;

EID: 42549112139     PISSN: 13850237     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11258-007-9344-3     Document Type: Article

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