The influence of spatial patterns of soil moisture on the grass and shrub responses to a summer rainstorm in a Chihuahuan desert ecotone

Ecosystems

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 511-525

  Pockman, William T ^a   Small, Eric E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Grass shrub interactions; Plant gas exchange; Precipitation pulses; Soil moisture; Spatial pattern of soil moisture; Surface hydrology

Indexed keywords

ECOTONE; GAS EXCHANGE; GRASS; HYDROLOGICAL RESPONSE; NUTRIENT CYCLING; PLANT WATER RELATIONS; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; RAINSTORM; REFUGE; SHRUB; SOIL DEPTH; SOIL MOISTURE; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

CHIHUAHUAN DESERT; NEW MEXICO; SEVILLETA NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE; UNITED STATES;

BOUTELOUA ERIOPODA; LARREA; LARREA TRIDENTATA; POACEAE;

EID: 77953541529     PISSN: 14329840     EISSN: 14350629     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10021-010-9337-2     Document Type: Article

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