Resource Pulses in Desert River Habitats: Productivity-Biodiversity Hotspots, or Mirages?

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 10, 2013, Pages

  Free, Carissa L ^a   Baxter, Greg S ^a   Dickman, Christopher R ^b   Leung, Luke K P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RAIN;

ANNUAL PLANT; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BIODIVERSITY; CATCHMENT; CLAY; DESERT; DROUGHT; HABITAT QUALITY; HABITAT USE; MOISTURE; NONHUMAN; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; PLANT ECOLOGY; PLANT GROWTH; POPULATION PRODUCTIVITY; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; RIVER; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES REFUGE; SYNECOLOGY; VERTEBRATE; WATER SUPPLY;

BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEM; RIVERS;

EID: 84885052539     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0072690     Document Type: Article

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