@article{c380e8ad21e1466d9366f1c8a30cac76,
title = "Demographic variation in a desert shrub, Larrea tridentata, in response to a thinning treatment",
abstract = "We performed a perturbation experiment to determine the relative importance of intra-specific competition on the demographic performance of a population of creosotebush, Larrea tridentata. From 1992 to 1995, we followed 1000 individuals, half of which were in plots subjected to a thinning treatment, and the other half were in unmanipulated plots. We found no significant response to the thinning treatment for any of the traits studied. The strict interpretation of these results is that intra-specific competition is not important in this Larrea population. (C) 2000 Academic Press.",
keywords = "Competition, Creosotebush, Density-dependence, Population regulation",
author = "Miller, {Richard E.} and Huenneke, {Laura F.}",
note = "Funding Information: The authors thank K. Havstad for permission to work on the Jornada Experimental Range; and R. Dunn, J. Veech, C. McGlone, J. Thompson, J. Baggs, J. Trojan, S. Wood, R. Little, O. Jimenez-Moreno, O. Telgarska, J. Osowski, G. Akin, J. Schwarz, J. Gurrola, and V. Peywa for field assistance. Special thanks to J. Anderson for invaluable logistic support. We thank M. Rausher for helpful discussions. We appreciate the comments of L. Kohorn and P. Tiffin on an earlier version of the manuscript. We thank R. Gibbens and T. Ward for sharing their unpublished data with us. Funding was provided by the USDA/Bureau of Land Management, Grant G910{"}A1-002, awarded to L. Huenneke and a continuation from the U.S. National Biological Service, and by the Jornada Long Term Ecological Research program, NSF DEB-92-40216. R. Miller also would like to thank Duke University for additional support through a postdoctoral fellowship.",
year = "2000",
doi = "10.1006/jare.2000.0649",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "45",
pages = "315--323",
journal = "Journal of Arid Environments",
issn = "0140-1963",
publisher = "Academic Press Inc.",
number = "4",
}