Assemblage structure and quantitative habitat relations of small mammals along an ecological gradient in the Colorado Desert of southern California

Ecography

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 659-673

  Kelt, Douglas A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENT; MAMMAL; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES RICHNESS;

CALIFORNIA; COLORADO DESERT; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALIA; CHAETODIPUS; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0033500269     PISSN: 09067590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0587.1999.tb00515.x     Document Type: Article

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