Changes in small mammal assemblage structure across a rain forest/open forest ecotone

Journal of Tropical Ecology

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 187-198

  Williams, Stephen E ^a   Marsh, Helene ^a  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; MAMMAL ASSEMBLAGE; OPEN FOREST; RAINFOREST; SMALL MAMMAL; SPECIES RICHNESS;

AUSTRALIA; QUEENSLAND; WET TROPICS WORLD HERITAGE AREA;

MAMMALIA; RATTUS FUSCIPES;

EID: 0031901602     PISSN: 02664674     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0266467498000157     Document Type: Article

References (23)

1. ASH, J. 1988. The location and stability of rain forest boundaries in north-eastern Queensland. Journal of Biogeography 15:619-630.
2. AUGUST, P. V. 1983. The role of habitat complexity and heterogeneity in structuring tropical mammal communities. Ecology 64:1495-1507.
3. BRAITHWAITE, R. W., COCKBURN, A. & LEE, A. K. 1978. Resource partitioning by small mammals in lowland heath communities of SE Australia. Australian Journal of Ecology 3:423-445.
4. BRAITHWAITE, R. W., WINTER, J. W., TAYLOR, J. A. & PARKER, B. S. 1985. Patterns of diversity and structure of mammalian assemblages in the Australian tropics. Australian Mammalogy 8:171-186.
5. CONNELL, J. H. & ORIANS, E. 1964. The ecological regulation of species diversity. American Naturalist 98:399-414.
6. HARRINGTON, G. N. & SANDERSON, K. D. 1994. Recent contraction of wet sclerophyll forest in the Wet Tropics of Queensland due to invasion by rain forest. Pacific Conservation Biology 1:319-327.
7. HOCKINGS, M. 1981. Habitat distribution and species diversity of small mammals in south-east Queensland in relation to vegetation structure. Australian Wildlife Research 8:97-108.
8. KUPFER, J. A. 1995. Landscape ecology and biogeography. Progress in Physical Geography 19:18-34.
9. LAURANCE, W. F. 1992. Abundance estimates of small mammals in Australian tropical rainforest: a comparison of four trapping methods. Wildlife Research 19:651-655.
10. MALCOLM, J. R. 1990. Estimation of mammalian densities in continuous forest north of Manaus. Pp. 339-357 in Gentry, A. H. (ed.). Four neotropical rainforests. Yale University Press, New Haven.
11. MALCOLM, J. R. 1991. Comparative abundances of neotropical small mammals by trap height. Journal of Mammalogy 72:188-192.
12. PIANKA, E. R. 1966. Latitudinal gradients in species diversity: a review of concepts. American Naturalist 100:33-46.
13. ROSENZWEIG, M. L. & ABRAMSKY, Z. 1993. How are diversity and productivity related? Pp. 52-65 in Ricklefs, R. E. & Schluter, D. (eds). Species diversity in ecological communities: historical and regional perspectives. University of Chicago Press, Chicago.
14. ROSENZWEIG, M. L. & WINAKUR, J. 1969. Population ecology of desert rodent communities:habitats and environmental complexity. Ecology 50:558-572.
15. SHMIDA, A. & WILSON, M. V. 1985. Biological determinants of species diversity. Journal of Biogeography 12:1-20.
16. TRACEY, J. G. & WEBB, L. J. 1975. Vegetation of the humid tropical region of north Queensland. Fifteen maps at a scale of 1:100 000 plus key and notes. CSIRO, Indooroopilly, Australia.
17. UNWIN, G. L., STOCKER, G. C. & SANDERSON, K. D. 1985. Fire and the forest ecotone in the Herberton highland, north Queensland. Proceedings of the Ecological Society of Australia 13:215-224.
18. WILLIAMS, S. E. 1990. The interactive relationship between vegetation and the small mammal community of the rain forest ecotone in north Queensland. BSc. thesis, James Cook University of North Queensland, Townsville, Australia.
19. WILLIAMS, S. E. 1997. Patterns of mammalian biodiversity in the Australian tropical rain forests: are extinctions during historical contractions of the rain forest the primary determinant of current regional patterns in biodiversity? Wildlife Research 24:513-530.
20. WILLIAMS, S. E. & PEARSON, R. G. 1997. Historical rainforest contractions, localised extinctions and patterns of vertebrate endemism in the rainforests of Australia's Wet Tropics. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 264:709-716.
21. WINTER J. W. 1988. Ecological specialisation of mammals in Australian tropical and sub-tropical rain forests: refugial or ecological determinism? Proceedings of the Ecological Society of Australia 15:127-138.
22. WINTER, J. W., BELL, F. C., PAHL, L. I. & ATHERTON, R. G. 1991. Distributions of selected north-eastern Australian rain forest mammals. Pp. 155-175 in Werren G. & Kershaw P. (eds). The rain forest legacy. Vol. 2. Australian Government Publishing Service, Canberra, Australia.
23. ZIMMERMAN, G. M., GOETZ, H. & MIELKE, P. W. Jr. 1985. Use of an improved statistical method for group comparisons to study effects of prairie fire. Ecology 66:606-611.