Major plant communities of warm North American deserts

M Peinado, F Alcaraz, JL Aguirre… - Journal of Vegetation …, 1995 - Wiley Online Library
A syntaxonomic study of the major plant communities in neotropical North American deserts
(Sonoran, Mojave and Baja California Deserts) is presented. The field method of the Braun …

Cold desert

M Caldwell - Physiological ecology of North American plant …, 1985 - Springer
Uplifting of the Sierra Nevada and the Cascades in the late Pliocene provided the massive
rain shadow that causes the Great Basin desert climate. The extensive shrub-dominated …

Annuals and perennials of warm deserts

J Ehleringer - Physiological ecology of North American plant …, 1985 - Springer
Warm deserts have held a certain attraction and fascination for plant ecologists and
physiologists for many decades. The reasons for this interest lie in the different types of plant …

The desert and other transmontane plant communities of southern California

RF Thorne - Aliso: A Journal of Systematic and Floristic …, 1982 - scholarship.claremont.edu
Transmontane southern California, less than one-quarter of the state's area, has a rich,
specialized flora and vegetation due to most varied topography, substrata, and climate. Of …

[图书][B] Hot deserts and arid shrublands, B.

M Evenari, I Noy-Meir, DW Goodall - 1986 - cabidigitallibrary.org
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Perennial grass-dominated plant communities of the eastern Mojave Desert region.

JR McAuliffe - Desert Plants, 2016 - search.ebscohost.com
Portions of the eastern Mojave Desert region of southeastern California, southern Nevada,
and west-central Arizona that receive significant inputs of warm-season precipitation contain …

The vegetation of the deserts near Cairo

PH Davis - The Journal of Ecology, 1953 - JSTOR
A preliminary account is given of the main plant communities of the Eastern and Western
Deserts of Egypt, chiefly in the neighbourhood of Cairo. As a rule the communities are …

Desert succulents

PS Nobel - Physiological ecology of North American plant …, 1985 - Springer
Desert succulents Page 1 8 Desert succulents PARK S. NOBEL 8.1 Introduction Succulents
such as agaves and cacti comprise one of the most interesting and characteristic groups of …

Ecology of desert plants. III. Development of plants in the Death Valley National Monument, California

FW Went, M Westergaard - Ecology, 1949 - JSTOR
The dryness of Death Valley is due to its location in the southerly part of the Great Basin
lying between the Sierra Nevada and Rocky Mountains. To the north and south, hundreds of …

The desert vegetation of North America

F Shreve - Botanical Review, 1942 - JSTOR
The word" desert" is used in a geographical sense and in a biological sense. The former
usage is commonly applied to extremely dry regions which are poor in plant and animal life …