Hierarchical analysis of vegetation dynamics over 71 years: Soil-rainfall interactions in a Chihuahuan Desert ecosystem

Ecological Applications

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 909-926

  Browning, Dawn M ^a   Duniway, Michael C ^a,c   Laliberte, Andrea S ^b   Rango, Albert ^a  

^a AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^b NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aerial photography; Chihuahuan Desert, New Mexico, USA; Cross scale linkages; Ecological state mapping; Hierarchy theory; Jornada Basin LTER; Object based change detection; Petrocalcic soil; Prosopis glandulosa; Shrub patch dynamics; Shrub proliferation; Soil depth

Indexed keywords

RAIN; SILICON DIOXIDE;

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY; COEXISTENCE; COLONIZATION; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; COMMUNITY RESPONSE; DEMOGRAPHY; DOMINANCE; DROUGHT STRESS; GROWTH RATE; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEM; LAND USE; PATCH DYNAMICS; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; RANGELAND; SANDY SOIL; SAVANNA; SHRUB; SOIL DEPTH; SOIL PROFILE; SUCCESSION; VEGETATION COVER; VEGETATION DYNAMICS; VEGETATION MAPPING;

ARTICLE; DESERT CLIMATE; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; METHODOLOGY; PLANT; SOIL; TIME; UNITED STATES;

CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; DESERT CLIMATE; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; NEW MEXICO; PLANTS; RAIN; SILICON DIOXIDE; SOIL; TIME FACTORS;

CHIHUAHUAN DESERT; JORNADA BASIN; NEW MEXICO; UNITED STATES;

PROSOPIS GLANDULOSA;

EID: 84860235573     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/11-1193.1     Document Type: Article

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