Response of rodents to habitat fragmentation in coastal southern California

Ecological Applications

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 552-563

  Bolger, Douglas T ^a   Alberts, Allison C ^b   Sauvajot, Raymond M ^c   Potenza, Paula ^d   Mccalvin, Catherine ^d   Tran, Dung ^d   Mazzoni, Sabrina ^d   Soulé, Michael E ^e  

^a DARTMOUTH COLLEGE   (United States)

^b ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^c NATIONAL PARK SERVICE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Chaparral; Coastal sage scrub; Extinction; Habitat fragmentation; Landscape ecology; Neotoma; Perognathus; Peromyscus; Persistence; Rodents; Southern California

Indexed keywords

CRICETINAE; NEOTOMA; PEROGNATHUS; PEROMYSCUS; RODENTIA; SALVIA;

CHAPARRAL; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; LOCAL EXTINCTION; RODENT; SCRUBLAND;

USA, CALIFORNIA;

EID: 0030613869     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/1051-0761(1997)007[0552:RORTHF]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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