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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Format: | Doctoral Thesis |
Language: | English |
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2016
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.40695 |