| Title | Shrub-grass transitions and multiscale temporal variation in water availability |
| Publication Type | Conference Proceedings |
| Year of Publication | 2006 |
| Authors | Snyder K.A., Tartowski, Sandy L. |
| Conference Name | Proceedings of the Sixth Symposium on the Natural Resources of the Chihuahuan Desert Region |
| Date Published | 2006 |
| ARIS Log Number | 174839 |
| Keywords | multiscale, shrub-grass transitions, temporal variation, water availability |
| Abstract | Desert regions in the southwestern United States and northern Mexico exhibit a high degree of temporal variability in water availability with important consequences for transitions between grasslands and shrublands. This temporal variability is a result of: shifting climate regimes over centuries and decades, interannual variation in weather patterns, seasonal differences in the nature of winter and summer precipitation, within-season variability in precipitation frequency and magnitude, and feedbacks between vegetation and soil water. |
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