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Ehleringer, James R. | Plant adaptation in the Great Basin and Colorado Plateau | Adaptive features of plants of the Great Basin are reviewed. The combination of cold winters and an arid to semiarid precipitation regime results in the distinguishing features of the vegetation in the Great Basin and Colorado Plateau. The primary effects of these climatic features arise from how t... | Plant adaptation; Great Basin; Colorado Plateau; Cold deserts | 1992 |
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Ehleringer, James R.; Belnap, Jayne | Sensitivity of the Colorado plateau to change: climate, ecosystems, and society | The Colorado Plateau is located in the interior, dry end of two moisture trajectories coming from opposite directions, which have made this region a target for unusual climate fluctuations. A multidecadal drought event some 850 years ago may have eliminated maize cultivation by the first human settl... | Colorado Plateau; Biological crust; Climate change; Megadrought; Ranching; Dry crop productivity; Extractive industries; Pueblo Indians; Fremont culture | 2008 |
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