Response of a Mediterranean semiarid community to changing patterns of water supply

Perspectives in Plant Ecology, Evolution and Systematics

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 255-266

  de Dios Miranda, Juan ^a   Padilla, Francisco M ^a   Pugnaire, Francisco I ^a  

^a DEPARTAMENTO DE ECOLOGÍA FUNCIONAL Y EVOLUTIVA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Climate change; Drought; Flowering; Phenology; Pulsed events; Rainfall pattern

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; ECOSYSTEM STRUCTURE; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; FLOWERING; GERMINATION; GROWTH RATE; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; PHENOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; PREDICTION; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEEDLING ESTABLISHMENT; SIMULATION; TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEM;

MEDITERRANEAN REGION; MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

EID: 70349764456     PISSN: 14338319     EISSN: 16180437     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ppees.2009.05.001     Document Type: Article

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