Shrub invasion decreases diversity and alters community stability in Northern Chihuahuan desert plant communities

PLoS ONE

Volumn 3, Issue 6, 2008, Pages

  Báez, Selene ^a   Collins, Scott L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DESERT; GLOBAL CLIMATE; GRASSLAND; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; INTERSPECIFIC RELATIONSHIP; NONHUMAN; PLANT COMMUNITY; SHRUB; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES RICHNESS; TIME; UNITED STATES; VEGETATION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LARREA; PHYSIOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL MODEL;

BOUTELOUA; BOUTELOUA ERIOPODA; LARREA; LARREA TRIDENTATA;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; LARREA; LINEAR MODELS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 48449098367     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0002332     Document Type: Article

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