Vertebrate feeding guilds in California's Sierra Nevada: Relations to environmental condition and change in spatial scale

Annals of the Association of American Geographers

Volumn 91, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 245-262

  Parker, Kathleen C ^a   Parker, Albert J ^a   Vale, Thomas R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

Author keywords

American West; Animal environment relationships; Feeding guilds; Sierra Nevada; Spatial scale; Vertebrates

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOGRAPHY; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; VEGETATION STRUCTURE; VERTEBRATE;

CALIFORNIA; SIERRA NEVADA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0035384511     PISSN: 00045608     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/0004-5608.00241     Document Type: Article

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