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Quantifying potential abiotic drivers of the nurse-plant effect in two dominant shrub species of the northern Chihuahuan Desert
Scott Ferrenberg, Akasha M. Faist, Brooke Osborne, Steven R. Lee
This study quantifies abiotic drivers of the nurse-plant effect in two shrub species in the Chihuahuan Desert, finding that radiation interception and temperature reduction, not soil water availability, explain most of the variance.
DOI 10.1101/2023.11.16.567462