Untangling the positive and negative effects of shrubs on herbaceous vegetation in drylands

Landscape Ecology

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 899-910

  Segoli, Moran ^a,c   Ungar, Eugene D ^b   Giladi, Itamar ^a   Arnon, Amir ^b   Shachak, Moshe ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b VOLCANI CENTER   (Israel)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Competition; Ecosystem engineer; Facilitation; Landscape modulator; Multiple layer landscape diversity; Sarcopoterium spinosum

Indexed keywords

ARID REGION; BIOMASS; CANOPY; ECOSYSTEM ENGINEERING; FACILITATION; HERB; INFILTRATION; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; LIGHT AVAILABILITY; PHOTOSYNTHETICALLY ACTIVE RADIATION; SEED DISPERSAL; SEMIARID REGION; SHRUB; SPECIES DIVERSITY; VEGETATION COVER;

SARCOPOTERIUM SPINOSUM;

EID: 84862114794     PISSN: 09212973     EISSN: 15729761     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10980-012-9736-1     Document Type: Article

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