The effect of mean and variance in resource supply on survival of annuals from Mediterranean and desert environments

Oecologia

Volumn 141, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 353-362

  Sher, Anna A ^a,c   Goldberg, Deborah E ^a,b   Novoplansky, Ariel ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DENVER   (United States)

Author keywords

Desert ecology; Drought resistance; Phenotypic plasticity; Pulse dynamics; Temporal resource availability

Indexed keywords

WATER;

DROUGHT RESISTANCE; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; RESOURCE AVAILABILITY; SURVIVAL;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DESERT CLIMATE; ENVIRONMENT; GERANIACEAE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; ISRAEL; PHYSIOLOGY; POACEAE; REPRODUCTION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL MODEL; SURVIVAL; TIME;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; DESERT CLIMATE; ENVIRONMENT; GERANIACEAE; ISRAEL; LOGISTIC MODELS; POACEAE; REPRODUCTION; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS; WATER;

EID: 6044229774     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-003-1435-9     Document Type: Article

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