Environmental and dispersal controls of an annual plant's distribution: How similar are patterns and apparent processes at two spatial scales?

Plant Ecology

Volumn 212, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 1887-1899

  Kramer, Heather A C ^a   Montgomery, David M ^b   Eckhart, Vincent M ^c   Geber, Monica A ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b DESERT RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF NAMIBIA   (Namibia)

^c GRINNELL COLLEGE   (United States)

^d Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics   (United States)

Author keywords

Plant water relations; Soil texture; Spatial ecology; Species distribution; Topography

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ANNUAL PLANT; COLONIZATION; DICOTYLEDON; DISPERSAL; DROUGHT RESISTANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECT; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; PATCH USE; PLANT WATER RELATIONS; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; SOIL TEXTURE; TOPOGRAPHY; WATER STRESS;

CLARKIA; CLARKIA XANTIANA;

EID: 80054052888     PISSN: 13850237     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11258-011-9961-8     Document Type: Article

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