Demographics of more than 12,000 individuals of a keystone species in the northern sonoran desert since the mid-1800s

International Journal of Plant Sciences

Volumn 171, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 538-546

  Danzer, Shelley ^a   Drezner, Taly Dawn ^b  

^a Arizona Army National Guard   (United States)

^b YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Arizona; Carnegiea gigantea; Plant climate interactions; Saguaro cactus; Volcanism

Indexed keywords

BIOME; CLIMATE CHANGE; COHORT ANALYSIS; DATA SET; DEMOGRAPHIC TREND; DICOTYLEDON; KEYSTONE SPECIES; MORTALITY; POPULATION GROWTH; VOLCANIC ERUPTION; VOLCANISM;

ARIZONA; SONORAN DESERT; UNITED STATES;

CACTACEAE; CARNEGIEA GIGANTEA;

EID: 77952924598     PISSN: 10585893     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/652013     Document Type: Article

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