Water-use efficiency and relative growth rate mediate competitive interactions in Sonoran Desert winter annual plants

American Journal of Botany

Volumn 100, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 2009-2015

  Gremer, Jennifer R ^a   Kimball, Sarah ^b   Keck, Katie R ^a   Huxman, Travis E ^a,b   Angert, Amy L ^c   Venable, D Lawrence ^a  

^a University of Arizona   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

Coexistence; Competition; Condition dependence; Ecophysiology; Erodium texanum; Functional traits; Plantago insularis; Stylocline micropoides; Trade offs

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL PLANT; COEXISTENCE; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; DEMOGRAPHIC TREND; DICOTYLEDON; ECOPHYSIOLOGY; GROWTH RATE; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; LIFE HISTORY; PHENOLOGY; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SOIL MOISTURE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TRADE-OFF; WATER USE EFFICIENCY; WINTER;

SONORAN DESERT;

WATER;

ANGIOSPERM; ARTICLE; BIOMASS; COEXISTENCE; COMPETITION; CONDITION DEPENDENCE; DESERT CLIMATE; ECOPHYSIOLOGY; ERODIUM TEXANUM; FUNCTIONAL TRAITS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT DEVELOPMENT; PLANT SEED; PLANTAGO INSULARIS; SEASON; STYLOCLINE MICROPOIDES; TRADE-OFFS; UNITED STATES;

COEXISTENCE; COMPETITION; CONDITION DEPENDENCE; ECOPHYSIOLOGY; ERODIUM TEXANUM; FUNCTIONAL TRAITS; PLANTAGO INSULARIS; STYLOCLINE MICROPOIDES; TRADE-OFFS;

ANGIOSPERMS; ARIZONA; BIOMASS; DESERT CLIMATE; PLANT DEVELOPMENT; SEASONS; SEEDS; WATER;

EID: 84885337527     PISSN: 00029122     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3732/ajb.1300064     Document Type: Article

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