Pérez-Sánchez R. M., Flores J., Jurado E., González-Salvatierra C., Growth and ecophysiology of succulent seedlings under the protection of nurse plants in the Southern Chihuahuan Desert, Ecosphere, 2015, 6(3):36, doi: 10.1890/ES14-00408.1
Growth, water relations and chlorophyll fluorescence of young succulents beneath mesquite canopies and in an open plot. For Stenocactus coptonogonus, photosystem II efficiency, electron transport, mass gain and tissue hydration were compared.