El Nino events, precipitation patterns, and rodent outbreaks are statistically associated in semiarid Chile

Ecography

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 213-218

  Lima, Mauricio ^a   Marquet, Pablo A ^b   Jaksic, Fabian M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

^b PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE   (Chile)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE EFFECT; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RODENT; SEMIARID REGION;

CHILE; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 0032940726     PISSN: 09067590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0587.1999.tb00470.x     Document Type: Article

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