Desert Playa Wetlands: Ecological Controls of their Functioning and Responses to Climate Change

abstract: The Basin and Range province of southwestern USA are composed of different grassland and shrubland ecosystems. Particularly understudied ecosystems in this region are playas, which are ephemerally-flooded wetlands located in topographic low areas of hydrologically-closed dryland catchments...

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Other Authors: McKenna, Owen Philip (Author)
Format: Doctoral Thesis
Language:English
Published: 2016
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.40695