Community structure of desert small mammals: comparisons across four continents

Ecology

Volumn 77, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 746-761

  Kelt, Douglas A ^a,g   Brown, James H ^a   Heske, Edward J ^b   Marquet, Pablo A ^c   Morton, Stephen R ^d   Reid, Julian R W ^d   Rogovin, Kontantín A ^e   Shenbrot, Georgy ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS   (United States)

^c PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE   (Chile)

^d CSIRO   (Australia)

^e SEVERTSOV INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION   (Russian Federation)

^f BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Asian deserts; Australian deserts; Community structure; Desert small mammals; Gobi desert; Negev desert; North american deserts; South american deserts; Thar desert; Trophic structure; Turkestan desert

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000243750     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2265499     Document Type: Article

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