Climates and Vegetation Pattern across the Mojave/Great Basin Desert Transition of Southern Nevada
Beatley JC. 1975. Climates and Vegetation Pattern across the Mojave/Great Basin Desert Transition of Southern Nevada. The American Midland Naturalist. 93(1):53-70
Plant communities of the transition between the Mojave and Great Basin desert of southern Nevada are under the primary control of climatic variables. Rainfall increases and temperature decreases according to large increments of increase in elevation of the drainage basins from S to N. Within the basins, the climates and vegetation pattern are primarily under the control of patters of air circulation and nocturnal cold air accumulations and secondarily, of edaphic factors. All relationships are inferred from data collected during 10 years on a network of study sites on the Nevada Test Site of central-southern Nevada, whose drainage basins encompass the transition from the Mojave to the Great Basin Desert.
- Type
- Journal Article
- Authors
- Beatley, Janice
- Units
- DEVA , MOJA
- Keywords
- Absence (Biodiversity), Abundance (Biodiversity), Climate, climatic variables, Communities, Death Valley National Park, Distribution (Biodiversity), Drainage Basins, Ecology, edaphic, elevation difference, Great Basin, Mojave Desert, Presence (Biodiversity), rainfall tolerances, Taxa Links To Datasets, Taxa Links To References, temperature regimes, Vegetation