Spatial and temporal variability of plant-available water in calcium carbonate-cemented soils and consequences for arid ecosystem resilience - Duniway, Michael Cohrs; Herrick, Jeffrey E; Monger, H. Curtis (Oecologia, 2010)
Keywords: Analysis of Variance; Animal and plant ecology; Animal, plant and microbial ecology; Arid soils; arid zones; Biological and medical sciences; Biomedical and Life Sciences; Calcium; Calcium Carbonate; Calcium Carbonate - metabolism; Carbonates; Climate; Climate change; Climatic changes; Desert soils; Drought; Droughts; Drying; Ecology; Ecosystem; ECOSYSTEM ECOLOGY - ORIGINAL PAPER; Ecosystem resilience; Ecosystems; Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology; General aspects; Global climate; Global temperature changes; Grasses; Grassland soils; Growing season; Hydrology/Water Resources; Life Sciences; metabolism; Moisture content; New Mexico; Plant Sciences; Plants; Plants - metabolism; Precipitation; Precipitation variability; Rain and rainfall; Rainfall; rhizosphere; Rooting; Sand soils; Semiarid lands; Soil; soil depth; Soil ecology; Soil horizons; Soil moisture; Soil water; Soil water content; soil water retention; Soils; spatial distribution; spring; Summer; Synecology; Temporal distribution; temporal variation; Vegetation; Water; Water - metabolism; water distribution; water holding capacity; Weather forecasting; New Mexico; USA, New Mexico; Calcic; Climate change; Chihuahuan Desert; Desert grassland; Petrocalcic; Grassland; Spatial variability; Arid environment; Water availability; Chihuahua Mexico; Resilience; Dynamical climatology; Soils; Ecosystem; Calcium carbonate; Desert