Topographic influences on vegetation mosaics and tree diversity in the Chihuahuan Desert Borderlands

Ecology

Volumn 91, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1140-1151

  Poulos, Helen M ^a,b   Camp, Ann E ^a  

^a Yale School of the Environment   (United States)

^b WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Diversity; Environmental gradients; Landscape ecology; Madrean evergreen woodlands; Sky islands; Southwestern north america; Vegetation pattern

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DESERT; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENT; FOREST COVER; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; MONTANE FOREST; MOUNTAIN REGION; SLOPE; SOLAR RADIATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TOPOGRAPHY; TREE; VALLEY; VEGETATION TYPE;

ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; DEMOGRAPHY; DESERT CLIMATE; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; GENETICS; GEOGRAPHY; MEXICO; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TREE; UNITED STATES;

DEMOGRAPHY; DESERT CLIMATE; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; GEOGRAPHY; MEXICO; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TEXAS; TREES;

CHIHUAHUAN DESERT; MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; TEXAS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77951184540     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/08-1808.1     Document Type: Article

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