Desertification alters patterns of aboveground net primary production in Chihuahuan ecosystems

Agriculture & Biology

• desertification 100%
• net primary productivity 92%
• grasslands 61%
• ecosystems 53%
• shrubs 52%
• Larrea 34%
• shrublands 32%
• vegetation 30%
• grasses 30%
• Prosopis 27%
• aboveground biomass 20%
• phytomass 20%
• Bouteloua eriopoda 18%
• Flourensia cernua 18%
• Prosopis glandulosa 15%
• Larrea tridentata 15%
• playas 15%
• Chihuahuan Desert 14%
• dunes 11%
• deserts 9%
• basins 9%
• lakes 8%
• growing season 8%
• climate 8%
• prediction 6%
• summer 6%
• biomass 6%
• testing 3%

Earth & Environmental Sciences

• net primary production 85%
• desertification 78%
• ecosystem type 66%
• grassland 58%
• shrub 55%
• productivity 49%
• ecosystem 41%
• shrubland 35%
• grass 34%
• vegetation 24%
• biomass 18%
• desert 16%
• playa 12%
• annual variation 9%
• regional climate 9%
• dune 9%
• seasonality 9%
• growing season 9%
• comparison 8%
• lake 5%
• summer 5%
• basin 5%
• prediction 5%
• test 3%

Chemical Compounds

• Ecosystem 85%
• Time 15%
• Heterogeneity 13%
• Displacement 11%