Climate influences the demography of three dominant sagebrush steppe plants

Ecology

Volumn 92, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 75-85

  Dalgleish, Harmony J ^a,c   Koons, David N ^a   Hooten, Mevin B ^a   Moffet, Corey A ^b   Adler, Peter B ^a  

^a UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b USDA ARS US Sheep Experiment Station   (United States)

^c PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Artemisia tripartite; Climate change; Demography; Hesperostipa comata; Idaho; Integral projection models; Population dynamics; Pseudoroegneria spicata; Sagebrush steppe; U.S. Sheep Experiment Station; USA

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DEMOGRAPHY; DICOTYLEDON; ECOSYSTEM DYNAMICS; GRASS; GROWTH RATE; PARAMETERIZATION; POPULATION GROWTH; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STEPPE; SURVIVAL;

ARTEMISIA; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEM; PHYSIOLOGY; POACEAE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; UNITED STATES;

ARTEMISIA; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEM; IDAHO; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POACEAE; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

IDAHO; UNITED STATES;

ARTEMISIA; ARTEMISIA TRIDENTATA; ARTEMISIA TRIPARTITA; HESPEROSTIPA COMATA; OVIS ARIES; PSEUDOROEGNERIA SPICATA;

EID: 79955532537     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/10-0780.1     Document Type: Article

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