The contribution of germination functional traits to population dynamics of a desert plant community

Ecology

Volumn 97, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 250-261

  Huang, Zhenying ^a   Liu, Shuangshuang ^b   Bradford, Kent J ^b   Huxman, Travis E ^c   Venable, D Lawrence ^d  

^a INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

Community population dynamics; Desert annuals; Functional traits; Germination; Long term research; Population dynamics; Population based threshold model; Sonoran Desert; Syndromes; Trade offs; Tumamoc Hill, Tucson, Arizona, USA

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL PLANT; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; DEMOGRAPHIC SURVEY; DESERT; ECOPHYSIOLOGY; FUNCTIONAL CHANGE; GERMINATION; PLANT COMMUNITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION MODELING; POPULATION SIZE; RESEARCH METHOD; TRADE-OFF;

ARIZONA; SONORAN DESERT; TUCSON; TUMAMOC HILL; UNITED STATES;

CLASSIFICATION; DESERT CLIMATE; ECOSYSTEM; GENETICS; GERMINATION; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REPRODUCTIVE FITNESS; TIME FACTOR; WEATHER;

DESERT CLIMATE; ECOSYSTEM; GENETIC FITNESS; GERMINATION; PLANTS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; TIME FACTORS; WEATHER;

EID: 84956793670     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/15-0744.1     Document Type: Article

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