Spatio-temporal variation in the demography of a bunch grass in a patchy semiarid environment

Plant Ecology

Volumn 175, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 107-120

  Vega, Ernesto ^a   Montaña, Carlos ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE ECOLOGÍA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Banded vegetation patterns; Chihuahuan Desert; Demographic periodic matrix models; Demographic stochastic matrix simulations; Hilaria mutica; Semiarid communities

Indexed keywords

DEMOGRAPHY; GRASS; SEMIARID REGION; SPATIAL VARIATION; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

HILARIA; PLEURAPHIS MUTICA;

EID: 8744300976     PISSN: 13850237     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:VEGE.0000048094.21994.74     Document Type: Article

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