Seasonal timing of first rain storms affects rare plant population dynamics

Ecology

Volumn 92, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 2236-2247

  Levine, Jonathan M ^a,c   McEachern, A Kathryn ^b   Cowan, Clark ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Annual plant; California Channel Islands USA; Climate events; Germination; Gilia tenuiflora; Life history transitions; Malacothrix indecora; Persistence under climate change; Phacelia insularis; Precipitation

Indexed keywords

RAIN;

ANNUAL PLANT; CLIMATE CHANGE; COASTAL ZONE; DICOTYLEDON; DROUGHT; ENDANGERED SPECIES; FROST; GERMINATION; GROWING SEASON; LIFE HISTORY THEORY; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; PERSISTENCE; POPULATION GROWTH; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RAINSTORM; RARE SPECIES; SEASONALITY; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; WEATHER FORECASTING;

ARTICLE; ASTERACEAE; CLIMATE CHANGE; ENDANGERED SPECIES; GERMINATION; HYDROPHYLLACEAE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEASON; TEMPERATURE; TIME; UNITED STATES;

ASTERACEAE; CALIFORNIA; CLIMATE CHANGE; ENDANGERED SPECIES; GERMINATION; HYDROPHYLLACEAE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RAIN; SEASONS; TEMPERATURE; TIME FACTORS;

CALIFORNIA; CHANNEL ISLANDS [CALIFORNIA]; UNITED STATES;

GILIA TENUIFLORA; MALACOTHRIX INDECORA; PHACELIA INSULARIS;

EID: 84555178385     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/11-0471.1     Document Type: Article

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