Agave salmiana plant communities in central Mexico as affected by commercial use

Environmental Management

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 55-63

  Martínez Salvador, Martin ^a   Mata González, Ricardo ^b   Morales Nieto, Carlos ^a   Valdez Cepeda, Ricardo ^c  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE INVESTIGACIONES FORESTALES   (Mexico)

^b OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA CHAPINGO   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Magueyera; Mezcal; Nopalera; Opuntia; Shrub replacement

Indexed keywords

MAGUEYERA; MEZCAL; NOPALERA; OPUNTIA; SHRUB REPLACEMENT;

ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT;

VEGETATION;

NATIVE SPECIES; PLANT COMMUNITY; SHRUB; VEGETATION DYNAMICS; VEGETATION STRUCTURE;

AGAVE; AGAVE SALMIANA; ARTICLE; BUDDLEJA; BUDDLEJA SCORDIOIDES; COMMERCIAL PHENOMENA; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; COMMUNITY SUCCESSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; COVER CROP; HARVEST; JATROPHA; JATROPHA DIOICA; LARREA; LARREA TRIDENTATA; MEXICO; MIMOSA; MIMOSA BIUNCIFERA; NONHUMAN; OPUNTIA; OPUNTIA LEUCOTRICHA; OPUNTIA ROBUSTA; ORGANISM COMMUNITY; PLANT COMMUNITY; PLANT DENSITY; SHRUB; SPECIES COMPOSITION; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

AGAVE; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; GEOGRAPHY; MEXICO; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA];

AGAVE; AGAVE SALMIANA; BUDDLEJA; JATROPHA DIOICA; LARREA TRIDENTATA; MIMOSA ACULEATICARPA BIUNCIFERA; OPUNTIA; OPUNTIA LEUCOTRICHA; OPUNTIA ROBUSTA;

EID: 84856719746     PISSN: 0364152X     EISSN: 14321009     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00267-011-9759-4     Document Type: Article

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