Transplant survivorship of bryophyte soil crusts in the mojave desert

Restoration Ecology

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 198-205

  Cole, Christina ^a,b   Stark, Lloyd R ^a   Bonine, Mary L ^a,c   McLetchie, D Nicholas ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^b IT Corporation   (United States)

^c Northeast Iowa Community College   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biological soil crust; Bryophyte; Crust mortality; Mosses; Syntrichia; Transplants

Indexed keywords

MICROHABITAT; MORTALITY; MOSS; PATCH DYNAMICS; POPULATION DECLINE; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SOIL CRUST; SURVIVORSHIP; TRANSPLANTATION;

MOJAVE DESERT; UNITED STATES;

BRYOPHYTA; BRYOPHYTES; SYNTRICHIA; SYNTRICHIA CANINERVIS;

EID: 77954371563     PISSN: 10612971     EISSN: 1526100X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1526-100X.2008.00445.x     Document Type: Article

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