Effects of climate and snow depth on Bromus tectorum population dynamics at high elevation

Oecologia

Volumn 164, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 821-832

  Griffith, Alden B ^a,b   Loik, Michael E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b WELLESLEY COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Invasive; Periodic matrix model; Sierra Nevada; Snow fence

Indexed keywords

SNOW;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; DISPERSAL; ELEVATION; FECUNDITY; GERMINATION; GRASS; INVASIVE SPECIES; PHENOLOGY; POPULATION GROWTH; RANGE EXPANSION; SEEDLING EMERGENCE; SNOW COVER; SNOWPACK;

ARTICLE; BROMUS; CLIMATE CHANGE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEASON; SEEDLING; SOIL;

BROMUS; CLIMATE CHANGE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEASONS; SEEDLING; SNOW; SOIL;

CALIFORNIA; SIERRA NEVADA [CALIFORNIA]; UNITED STATES;

BROMUS; BROMUS TECTORUM;

EID: 77957987913     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-010-1749-3     Document Type: Article

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