Species and community response to above normal precipitation following prolonged drought at Yucca Mountain, Nevada.
Schultz BW and Ostler WK. 1995. Species and community response to above normal precipitation following prolonged drought at Yucca Mountain, Nevada.. Pages 236-242. In Roundy BA, McArthur ED, Haley JS, Mann DK (ed): Proceedings: Wildland Shrub and Arid Land Restoration Symposium. Las Vegas, NV. October 19-21, 1993. U.S. Department of Agriculture: Forest Service--Intermountain Research Station. Ogden, UT. General Technical Report INT-GTR-315
Study conducted in 1991 to determine how the perennial species component of vegetation associations, and individual perennial plant species, in the northern Mojave Desert responded to above-normal precipitation following a prolonged and severe drought. All vegetation associations had a large increase in both absolute and relative cover.
- Type
- Conference Proceeding Paper
- Authors
- Schultz, Brad; Ostler, W.
- Units
- DEVA
- Keywords
- Absence (Biodiversity), Abundance (Biodiversity), Distribution (Biodiversity), Mojave Desert, Nevada Test Site, Nye County NV, perennial species, population fluctuation, Presence (Biodiversity), Species Density, Taxa Links To Datasets, Taxa Links To References, Vegetation association