Seed dispersal of desert annuals

Ecology

Volumn 89, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 2218-2227

  Venable, D Lawrence ^a   Flores Martinez, Arturo ^b   Muller Landau, Helene C ^c,e   Barron Gafford, Greg ^a   Becerra, Judith X ^d  

^a University of Arizona   (United States)

^b Secretaria de Medio Ambiente y Recursos Naturales Mexico   (Mexico)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^e SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

Author keywords

Desert annuals; Dispersal kernel; Escape in time and space; Inverse modeling; Pectocarya recurvata; Removal experiment; Schismus barbatus; Seed dispersal; Sonoran Desert; Species coexistence

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL PLANT; DESERT; ECOSYSTEM MODELING; GERMINATION; POPULATION DENSITY; SEED DISPERSAL; SEED PRODUCTION; SHRUB; WINTER;

ARIZONA; NORTH AMERICA; SONORAN DESERT; TUCSON; UNITED STATES;

PECTOCARYA RECURVATA; SCHISMUS BARBATUS;

ARTICLE; DEMOGRAPHY; DESERT CLIMATE; ECOSYSTEM; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT; PLANT SEED; RANDOMIZATION; UNITED STATES;

ARIZONA; DEMOGRAPHY; DESERT CLIMATE; ECOSYSTEM; PLANTS; RANDOM ALLOCATION; SEEDS;

EID: 54549085413     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/07-0386.1     Document Type: Article

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