Assessing the impact of fire on the spatial distribution of Larrea tridentata in the Sonoran Desert, USA

Oecologia

Volumn 178, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 473-484

  Fuentes Ramirez, Andres ^a   Mudrak, Erika L ^a   Caragea, Petrutza C ^b   Holzapfel, Claus ^c   Moloney, Kirk A ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Department of Statistics Center for Statistics and Applications in Forensic Evidence Iowa State University 2438 Osborn Dr Ames   (United States)

^c RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Desert shrublands; Ecological fire effects; Pair correlation function (PCF); Point pattern analysis; Spatial pattern

Indexed keywords

CHAPARRAL; PLANT COMMUNITY; RECONSTRUCTION; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; WILDFIRE;

SONORAN DESERT;

LARREA; LARREA TRIDENTATA;

ECOSYSTEM; FIRE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LARREA; PLANT DISPERSAL; UNITED STATES;

ECOSYSTEM; FIRES; LARREA; PLANT DISPERSAL; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84929951882     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-014-3214-1     Document Type: Article

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