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The Monte Desert, is a South American desert, located within the country of Argentina. The desert lies southeast of the
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Ezcurra, E., C. Montaña y S. Arizaga. 1991. Architecture, light interception, and distribution of Larrea species in the Monte desert, Argentina. Ecology 72: 23-34.
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(...) The great concept of oneness and of majestic order seems always to be born in the desert." (John Steinbeck, The log from the Sea of Cortéz) ... The Monte limits with the Chaco (to the NE and the E), with the Espinal (to the E), with the Puna or Prepuna (to the N, NW and W) and with the Patagonia (to the W,
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Monte desert of Argentina and identified gaps in current knowledge. We presented evidence of competitive and facilitative plant–plant conspecific and heterospecific interactions, and plant–soil– microbes interactions in relation to the abiotic environment at the fine patch-scale.
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Seasonal dynamics of guild structure in a bird assemblage of the central Monte desert; Javier Lopez de Casenavea, , Vı´ ctor R. Cuetoa, Luis Maroneb,c aDesert Community Ecology Research Team (Ecodes), Departamento de Ecologı´a, Gene´tica y Evolucio´n, FCEyN, Universidad de;
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Ctenomys (tuco-tuco) is a small fossorial herbivorous rodent of the Monte desert, and is probably the most abundant and widely distributed rodent in these arid lands. The aim of this study is to ... Keywords: Monte desert, mammals, animal-plant interaction, herbivory...
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Keywords: desert small mammals, diversity, habitat use, Monte desert ... The coexistence of desert small mammals can be explained by differences in microhabitat use, morphology, body size, diet and foraging.
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1 Patterns of seed germination of grass and forb species were studied in open Prosopis woodland of the central Monte desert (Argentina) during several years, to test the hypotheses that (i) seed germination is positively affected by both rainfall and protection afforded by vegetation cover (a facilitative effect),
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The distribution of some insect species shows great concordance with the area occupied by the Monte Desert, indicating its limits. ...
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We measured seed reserves in two habitats of the central Monte Desert in an attempt to detect such seed decline, but to no avail. After moderate rainfall ...
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