Process-based and correlative modeling of desert mistletoe distribution: A multiscalar approach

Ecosphere

Volumn 4, Issue 8, 2013, Pages

  Lira Noriega, Andrés ^a   Soberón, Jorge ^a   Miller, Curtis P ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

Author keywords

Colonization; Dispersal; Extinction; Geographic range; Metapopulation; Phoradendron californicum

Indexed keywords

EID: 84901024969     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21508925     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/ES13-00155.1     Document Type: Article

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