Rodents, plants, and precipitation: Spatial and temporal dynamics of consumers and resources

Oikos

Volumn 88, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 470-482

  Ernest, S K Morgan ^a   Brown, James H ^a   Parmenter, Robert R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIMITING FACTOR; PLANT-HERBIVORE INTERACTION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RODENT; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; VEGETATION COVER;

ARIZONA; CHIHUAHUAN DESERT; NEW MEXICO; PORTAL; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0034017097     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1600-0706.2000.880302.x     Document Type: Article

References (79)

1. Arnqvist, G. and Wooster, D. 1995. Meta-analysis: synthesizing research findings in ecology and evolution. Trends Ecol. Evol. 10: 236-240.
2. Beatley, J. C. 1967. Survival of winter annuals in the northern Mojave desert. - Ecology 48: 745-750.
3. Beatley, J. C. 1969. Dependence of desert rodents on winter annuals and precipitation. - Ecology 50: 721-724.
4. Beatley, J. C. 1974. Phenological events and their environmental triggers in Mojave desert ecosystems. Ecology 55: 856-863.
5. Brown, J. H. 1973. Species diversity of seed-eating desert rodents in sand dune habitats. - Ecology 54: 755-787.
6. Brown, J. H. 1987. Variation in desert rodent guilds: patterns, processes, and scales. - In: Gee, J. H. R. and Giller, P. S. (eds), Organization of communities past and present. Blackwell, Oxford, pp. 185-204.
7. Brown, J. H. 1998. The desert granivory experiments at Portal. - In: Resetarits, W. L., Jr. and Bernardo, J. (eds), Issues and perspectives in experimental ecology. Oxford Univ. Press, Oxford, pp. 71-95.
8. Brown, J. H. and Davidson, D. W. 1977. Competition between seed-eating rodents and ants in desert ecosystems. - Science 196: 880-882.
9. Brown, J. H. and Heske, E. J. 1990a. Temporal changes in a Chihuahuan desert rodent community. - Oikos 59: 290-302.
10. Brown, J. H. and Heske, E. J. 1990b. Control of a desert-grassland transition by a keystone rodent guild. - Science 250: 1705-1707.
11. Brown, J. H., Reichman, O. J. and Davidson, D. W. 1979. Granivory in desert ecosystems. Annu. Rev. Ecol. Syst. 10: 201-228.
12. Brown, J. H., Davidson, D. W., Munger, J. C. and Inouye, R. S. 1986. Experimental community ecology: the desert granivore system. - In: Diamond, J. and Case, T. J. (eds). Community ecology. Harper and Row, New York, pp. 41-61.
13. Brown, J. H., Valone, T. J. and Curtin, C. G. 1997. Reorganization of an arid ecosystem in response to recent climate change. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 94: 9729-9733.
14. Buckland, S. T., Anderson, D. R., Burnham, K. P. and Laake, J. L. 1993. Distance sampling, estimating abundance of biological populations. Chapman and Hall, New York.
15. Carpenter, S. R. and Kitchell, J. F. 1988. Consumer control of lake productivity. - BioScience 38: 764-769.
16. Chapin, F. S., III and Shaver, G. R. 1985. Individualistic growth response of tundra plant species to environmental manipulations in the field. - Ecology 66: 564-576.
17. Chapin, F. S., III. Shaver, G. R., Gibfin, A. E. et al. 1995. Responses of arctic tundra to experimental and observed changes in climate. - Ecology 76: 694-711.
18. Chew, R. M. and Butterworth, B. B. 1964. Ecology of rodents in Indian Cove (Mojave Desert). Joshua Tree National Monument, California. - J. Mammal. 45: 203-225.
19. Connell, J. H. 1961. The influence of interspecific competition and other factors on the distribution of the barnacle Chthamalus stellatus. - Ecology 42: 710-723.
20. Davis, M. B. 1986. Climatic instability, time lags, and community disequilibrium. - In: Diamond, J. and Case, T. J. (eds), Community ecology. Harper and Row. New York, pp. 269-284.
21. Ehrlich, P. R. and Birch, E. C. 1967. The "balance of nature" and "population control". - Am. Nat. 101: 97-107.
22. Estes, J. A. and Palmisano, J. E. 1974. Sea-otters: their role in structuring nearshore communities. - Science 185: 1058-1060.
23. Grace, J. B. and Pugesek, B. H. 1998. On the use of path analysis and related procedures for the investigation of ecological problems. Am. Nat. 152: 151-159.
24. Graham, R. W. 1986. Response of mammal communities to environmental changes during the late Quaternary. - In: Diamond, J. and Case, T. J. (eds). Community ecology. Harper and Row, New York, pp. 300-313.
25. Grant, P. R. and Grant, B. R. 1996. Finch communities in a climatically fluctuating environment. - In: Cody, M. L. and Smallwood, J. A. (eds). Long-term studies of vertebrate communities. Academic Press, San Diego, CA, pp. 343-384.
26. Guo, Q. F. and Brown, J. H. 1996. Temporal fluctuations and experimental effects in desert plant-communities. Oecologia 107: 568-577.
27. Hafner, M. S. 1977. Density and diversity in Mojave desert rodent and shrub communities. - J. Anim. Ecol. 46: 925-938.
28. Hairston, N. G., Smith, F. E. and Slobodkin, L. B. 1960. Community structure, population control and competition. - Am. Nat. 94: 421-425.
29. Hanson, J. M. and Peters, R. H. 1984. Empirical prediction of crustacean zooplankton biomass and profundal macrobenthos biomass in lakes. - Can. J. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 41: 439-445.
30. Hastings, A., Hom, C. L., Ellner, S. et al. 1993. Chaos in ecology: is mother-nature a strange attractor. - Annu. Rev. Ecol. Syst. 24: 1-33.
31. Heske, E. J., Brown, J. H. and Mistry, S. 1993. Long-term experimental study of a desert rodent community: 13 years of competition. Ecology 75: 438-445.
32. Hillel, D. and Tadmor, N. 1962. Water regime and vegetation in the central Negev highlands of Israel. Ecology 43: 33-41.
33. Hunter, M. D. and Price, P. W. 1992. Playing chutes and ladders: heterogeneity and the relative roles of bottom-up and top-down forces in natural communities. - Ecology 73: 724-732.
34. Jaksic, F. M., Silva, S. L. Meserve, P. L. and Gutierrez, J. R. 1997. A long-term study of vertebrate predator responses to an El Niño (ENSO) disturbance in western South America. Oikos 78: 341-354.
35. Leibold, M. A. and Wilbur, H. M. 1992. Interactions between food-web structure and nutrients on pond organisms. Nature 360: 341-343.
36. Leibold, M. A., Chase, J. M., Shurin, J. B. and Downing, A. L. 1997. Species turnover and the regulation of trophic structure. Annu. Rev. Ecol. Syst. 28: 467-494.
37. Lima, M., Keymer, J. E. and Jaksic, F. M. 1999. El Niño-Southern oscillation-driven rainfall variability and delayed density dependence cause rodent outbreaks in Western South America: linking demography and population dynamics. Am. Nat. 153: 476-491.
38. Lubehenco, J. 1978. Plant species diversity in a marine intertidal community: importance of herbivore food preference and algal competitive abilities. Am. Nat. 112: 23-39.
39. McCauley, E. and Kalff, J. 1981. Empirical relationships between phytoplankton and zooplankton biomass in lakes. - Can. J. Fish. Aquat Sci. 38: 458-463.
40. McClelland, W. T. and Hain, F. P. 1979. Survival of declining Dendroctonus frontalis populations during a severe and nonsevere winter. - Environ. Entomol. 8: 231-235.
41. McNaughton, S. J., Oesterheld, M., Frank, D. A. and Williams, K. J. 1989. Ecosystem-level patterns of primary productivity and herbivory in terrestrial habitats. Nature 341: 142-144.
42. Mehlman, D. W. 1997. Change in avian abundance across the geographic range in response to environmental change. -Ecol. Appl. 7: 614-624.
43. Meserve, P. L., Yunger, J. A., Gutierrez, J. R., Yunger, J. A. et al. 1995. Heterogeneous responses of small mammals to an El Nino Southern Oscillation event in northcentral semiarid Chile and the importance of ecological scale. - J. Mammal. 76: 580-595.
44. Meserve, P. L., Gutierrez, J. R. et al. 1996. Role of biotic interactions in a small mammal assemblage in semiarid Chile. Ecology 77: 133-148.
45. Mock, C. J. 1996. Climatic controls and spatial variation of precipitation in the western United States. J. Climate 9: 1111-1125.
46. Murdoch, W. W. 1966. Community structure, population control and competition a critique. - Am. Nat. 100: 219-226.
47. Oksanen, L. 1992. Evolution of exploitation ecosystems I. Predation, Foraging ecology and population dynamics in herbivores. - Evol. Ecol. 6: 15-33.
48. Oksanen, L., Fretwell, S. D., Arruda, J. und Niemelä. P. 1981. Exploitation ecosystems in gradients of primary productivity. - Am. Nat. 118: 240-261.
49. Olsen, L. F. and Schaffer, W. M. 1990. Chaos versus noisy periodicity: alternative hypotheses for childhood epidemics. Science 249: 499-504.
50. Ostfeld, R. S. 1997. The ecology of Lyme-disease risk. - Am. Sci. 85: 338-346.
51. Ostfeld, R. S., Canham, C. D. and Pugh, S. R. 1993. Intrinsic density-dependent regulation of vole populations. Nature 366: 259-261.
52. Paine, R. T. 1966. Food web complexity and species diversity. Am. Nat. 100: 65-75.
53. Parmenter, C. A., Yates, T. L., Parmenter, R. R. et al. 1998. Small mammal survival and trapability in mark-recapture monitoring programs for Hantavirus. J. Wildl. Dis. 34: 1-12.
54. Parmenter, R. R., Brunt, J. W., Moore, D. I. and Ernest, S. 1993. The Hantavirus epidemic in the Southwest: rodent population dynamics and the implications for the transmission of Hantavirus-associated Adult Respiratory Distress Syndrome (HARDS) in the Four Corners Region. Report to the Federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta. GA. Sevilleta LTER Publ. Ser. 41. pp. 1-45.
55. Parmesan, C. 1996. Climate and species range. - Nature 382: 765-766.
56. Pianka, E. R. 1986. Ecology and natural history of desert lizards. - Princeton Univ. Press. Princeton. NJ.
57. Polis, G. A., Hurd, S. D., Jackson, C. T. and Sanchex-Pinero, F. 1998. Multifactor population limitation: variable spatial and temporal control of spiders on Gulf of California Islands. Ecology 79: 490-502.
58. Power, M. E. 1990. Effects of fish in river food webs. Science 250: 811-814.
59. Power, M. E. 1992. Top-down and bottom-up forces in food webs: do plants have primacy? - Ecology 73: 733-746.
60. Power, M. E., Tilman, D., Estes, J. A. et al. 1996. Challenges in the quest for keystones. BioScience 46: 609-620.
61. Rice, W. R. 1990. A consensus combined p-value test and the family-wide significance of component tests. Biometrics 46: 303-308.
62. Rosenzweig, M. L. 1968. Net primary productivity of terrestrial environments: predictions from climatological data. Am. Nat. 102: 67-84.
63. Sala, O. E., Parton, W. J., Joyce, L. A. and Lauenroth, W. K. 1988. Primary production of the central grassland region of the United States. - Ecology 69: 40-45.
64. Samson, D. A., Philippi, T. E. and Davidson, D. W. 1992. Granivory and competition as determinants of annual plant diversity in the Chihuahuan desert. - Oikos 65: 61-80.
65. Schaffer, W. M. and Kot, M. 1985. Nearly one dimensional dynamics in an epidemic. - J. Theor. Biol. 112: 403-427.
66. Schindler, D. W. 1977. Evolution of phosphorus limitation in lakes. - Science 195: 260-262.
67. Slobodkin, L. B., Smith, F. E. and Hairston, N. G. 1967. Regulation in terrestrial ecosystems, and the implied balance of nature. - Am. Nat. 101: 109-124.
68. Smith, F. A., Brown, J. H. and Valone, T. J. 1997. Path analysis: a critical evaluation using long-term experimental data. - Am. Nat. 149: 29-42.
69. Smith, F. A., Brown, J. H. and Valone, T. J. 1998. Path modeling methods and ecological interactions: a response to Grace and Pugesek. Am. Nat. 152: 160-161.
70. Sutcliffe, O. L., Thomas, C. D. and Moss, D. 1996. Spatial synchrony and asynchrony in butterfly population dynamics. - J. Anim. Ecol. 65: 85-95.
71. Swetnam, T. W. and Betancourt, J. L. 1998. Mesoscale disturbance and ecological response to decadal climatic variability in the American Southwest. J. Climate 11: 3128-3147.
72. Tevis, L., Jr. 1958a. Germination and growth of ephemerals induced by sprinkling a sandy desert. - Ecology 39: 681-688.
73. Tevis, L., Jr. 1958b. A population of desert ephemerals germinated by less than one inch of rain. - Ecology 39: 688-695.
74. Tilman, D. and Downing, J. A. 1994. Biodiversity and stability in grasslands. - Nature 367: 363-365.
75. Turchin, P., Lorio, P. L., Jr., Taylor, A. D. and Billings, R. F. 1991. Why do populations of southern pine beetles (Coleoptera:Scolytidae) fluctuate? - Environ. Entomol. 20: 401-409.
76. Valone, T. J. and Brown, J. H. 1996. Desert rodents: long-term responses to natural changes and experimental manipulations. - In: Cody, M. L. and Smallwood, J. A. (eds), Long-term studies of vertebrate communities. Academic Press. San Diego. CA, pp. 555-583.
77. Vanni, M. J. 1987. Effects of nutrients and zooplankton size on the structure of a phytoplankton community. - Ecology 68: 624-635.
78. Vanni, M. J., Luecke, C., Kitchell, J. F. et al. 1990. Effects on lower trophic levels of massive fish mortality. - Nature 344: 333-335.
79. Whitford, W. G. 1976. Temporal fluctuations in density and diversity of desert rodent populations. - J. Mammal. 57: 351-369.