Windows of opportunity for Prosopis velutina seedling establishment and encroachment in a semiarid grassland

Perspectives in Plant Ecology, Evolution and Systematics

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 275-282

  Resco de Dios, Víctor ^a,b   Weltzin, Jake F ^c   Sun, Wei ^a,d   Huxman, Travis E ^e,f   Williams, David G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

^b WESTERN SYDNEY UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^d NORTHEAST NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e The University of Arizona   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Experimental water manipulation; Plant plant interactions; Precipitation seasonality; Savannah; Soil texture; Woody plant encroachment

Indexed keywords

DROUGHT STRESS; GRASS; GRASSLAND; INTRASPECIFIC INTERACTION; LEGUME; MORTALITY; PARTICLE SIZE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SEEDLING ESTABLISHMENT; SEMIARID REGION; SOIL TEXTURE; WOODY PLANT;

POACEAE; PROSOPIS; PROSOPIS VELUTINA;

EID: 84984582408     PISSN: 14338319     EISSN: 16180437     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ppees.2012.03.002     Document Type: Article

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