Patterns in the structure of Asian and North American desert small mammal communities

Journal of Biogeography

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 825-841

  Kelt, Douglas A ^a,b   Rogovin, Kontantín ^c,d   Shenbrot, Georgy ^c,e   Brown, James H ^b,f,g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^c MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^d RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Russian Federation)

^e BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^g Ecological Society of America   (United States)

Author keywords

Asian deserts; Community assembly; Competition; Desert rodents; Importance of history; Nested subsets; North American deserts; Null model

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; COMPETITION; DESERT; NESTEDNESS; SMALL MAMMAL; ZOOGEOGRAPHY;

ASIA; NORTH AMERICA;

MAMMALIA; RODENTIA;

EID: 0033404323     PISSN: 03050270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2699.1999.00325.x     Document Type: Article

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