Regeneration niche differentiates functional strategies of desert woody plant species

Oecologia

Volumn 165, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 477-487

  Butterfield, Bradley J ^a,b   Briggs, John M ^a,c  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Chihuahuan; Facilitation; Functional traits; Mojave; Sonoran

Indexed keywords

ARID REGION; BIOGEOGRAPHICAL REGION; BIOMASS ALLOCATION; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; DESERT; FACILITATION; FUNCTIONAL CHANGE; FUNCTIONAL ROLE; GROWTH RATE; NICHE PARTITIONING; ONTOGENY; PLANT COMMUNITY; REGENERATION; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; SEEDLING; SHRUB; WATER USE EFFICIENCY;

ARTICLE; BIOMASS; DESERT CLIMATE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LIGHT; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT ROOT; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; WOOD;

BIOMASS; DESERT CLIMATE; LIGHT; PLANT PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; PLANT ROOTS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; WOOD;

CHIHUAHUAN DESERT; MOJAVE DESERT; SONORAN DESERT; UNITED STATES;

EID: 78651421235     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-010-1741-y     Document Type: Article

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