Species richness and rarity in European rodents

Ecography

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 120-128

  Kryštufek, Boris ^a   Griffiths, Huw I ^b  

^a SLOVENIAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (Slovenia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENDEMISM; RANGE SIZE; RARITY; RODENT; SPECIES OCCURRENCE; SPECIES RICHNESS; ZOOGEOGRAPHY;

EUROPE;

RODENTIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0036488425     PISSN: 09067590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1600-0587.2002.250114.x     Document Type: Article

References (60)

1. Anon. 1996. Spatial response of mammals to late Quaternary environmental fluctuations. - Science 272: 1601-1606.
2. Avise, J. C. 2000. Phylogeography. - Chapman and Hall.
3. Bǎnǎrescu, P. 1992. Zoogeography of fresh waters. Vol, 2. - AULA Verlag.
4. Bennett, K. D. 1997. Evolution and ecology: the pace of life. - Cambridge Univ. Press.
5. Bilton, D. T. et al. 1998. Mediterranean Europe as an area of endemism for small mammals rather than a source for northwards postglacial colonization. - Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B 265: 1219-1226.
6. Brown, J. H. 1995. Macroecology. - Univ. of Chicago Press.
7. Cagnin, M. et al. 1998. A comparative study of Spanish and Italian terrestrial small mammal coenoses of different biotopes in Mediterranean peninsular tips. - J. Biogeogr. 25: 1105-1113.
8. Cheylan, G. 1990. Endémisme et spéciation chez les mammifères Méditerranées. - Vie Milieu 40: 137-143.
9. Colwell, R. K. and Lees, D. C. 2000. The mid-domain effect: geometric constraints on the geography of species richness. - Trends Ecol. Evol. 15: 70-76.
10. Davison, A. et al. 2000. Mitochondrial DNA and palaeontological evidence for the origins of endangered European mink, Mustela lutreola. - Anim. Conserv. 3: 345-355.
11. Doadrio, I. and Carmona, J. A. 1998. Genetic divergence in Greek populations of the genus Leuciscus and its evolutionary and biogeographical implications. - J. Fish Biol. 53: 591-613.
12. Dolukhanov, P. M. 1996. The early Slavs. - Longman.
13. Dubois, G. 1944. Sur le souslik des gisements Quaternaires d'Auvergne. - Rev. Sci. Nat. d'Auvergne (NS) 10: 4-37.
14. Frogley, M. R., Griffiths, H. I. and Heaton, T. H. E. 2001. Historical biogeography and Late Quaternary environmental change at Lake Pamvotis, Ioannina (NW Greece); evidence from ostracods. - J. Biogeogr. 28: 745-756.
15. Gaston, K. J. 1994. Rarity. - Chapman and Hall.
16. Gaston, K. J. and David, R. 1994. Hotspots across Europe. - Biodiv. Lett. 2: 108-116.
17. Godicl, L. 1980. Steppenflora in Nordwest-Jugoslawien. - Razprave IV, razreda SAZU, Ljubljana 12: 281-367.
18. Hafner, J. C. and Hafner, M. S. 1988. Heterochrony in rodents. - In: McKinney, M. L. (ed.), Heterochrony in evolution: a multidisciplinary approach. Plenum Press, pp. 217-235.
19. Hagmeier, E. M. and Stults, C. D. 1964. A numerical analysis of the distributional patterns of North American mammals. - Syst. Zool. 13: 125-155.
20. Hall, E. R. 1981. The mammals of North America. - Wiley.
21. Hanski, I. and Henttonen, H. 1996. Predation on competing rodent species: a simple explanation of complex patterns. - J. Anim. Ecol. 65: 220-232.
22. Herrera, C. M. 1974. Trophic diversity of the barn owl Tyto alba in continental western Europe. - Ornis Scand. 5: 181-191.
23. Hewitt, G. M. 1999. Post-glacial re-colonisation of Europan biota. - Biol. J. Linn. Soc. 68: 87-112.
24. Hewitt, G. M. 2000. The genetic legacy of Quaternary ice ages. - Nature 405: 907-913.
25. Hosey, G. R. 1982. The Bosphorous land-bridge and mammal distributions in Asia Minor and the Balkans. - Säugetierkd. Mitt. 30: 53-62.
26. Huntley, B. 1990. Dissimilarity mapping between fossil and contemporary pollen spectra in Europe for the last 13 000 years. - Quat. Res. 33: 360-376.
27. Huntley, B. and Prentice, I. C. 1993. Holocene vegetation and climates in Europe. - In: Wright, H. E. Jr et al. (eds), Global climates since the Last Glacial Maximum. Univ. of Minnesota Press, pp. 136-168.
28. Kaufman, D. M. 1995. Diversity of New World mammals: universality of the latitudinal gradients of species and bauplans. - J. Mammal. 76: 322-330.
29. Kryštufek, B. 1999. Snow voles, genus Chionomys, of Turkey. - Mammalia 63: 323-339.
30. Kryśtufek, B. and Macholán, M. 1999. Morphological differentiation in Mus spicilegus and the taxonomic status of mound-building mice from the Adriatic coast of Yugoslavia. - J. Zool. 245: 185-196.
31. Kryštufek, B., Davison, A. and Griffiths, H. I. 2000. Evolutionary biography of Neomys water shrews in the Western Palaearctic. - Can. J. Zool. 78: 1616-1625.
32. Lawton, J. H. 2000. Community ecology in a changing world. - Ecology Inst.
33. Markova, A. 1984. Late Pleistocene mammal fauna of the Russian Plain. - In: Velichko, A. A. (ed.), Late Quaternary environments of the Soviet Union (English ed.). Univ. Minnesota Press, pp. 209-218.
34. Matvejev, S. 1961. Biogeography of Jugoslavia. - Naučna knija.
35. Mitchell-Jones, A. J. et al. 1999. The atlas of European mammals. - T. and A. D. Poyser.
36. Mönkkönen, M. 1994. Diversity patterns in Palaearctic and Nearctic forest assemblages. - J. Biogeogr. 21: 183-195.
37. Musser, G. C. and Carleton, M. D. 1993. Family Muridae. - In: Wilson, D. E. and Reeder, D.-A. M. (eds), Mammal species of the world. A taxonomic and geographic reference, 2nd ed. Smithsonian Inst. Press, pp. 501-755.
38. Niethammer, J. and Krapp, F. 1978. Handbuch der Säugetiere Europas. Band 1, Nagetiere II. - Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft.
39. Niethammer, J. and Krapp, F. 1982. Handbuch der Säugetiere Europas. Band 2/I, Nagetiere II. - Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft.
40. Nott, M. P. and Pimm, S. L. 1997. The evaluation of biodiversity as a target for conservation. - In: Pickett, S. T. A. et al. (eds), The ecological basis of conservation. Heterogeneity, ecosystems, and biodiversity. Chapman and Hall, pp. 125-135.
41. Pagel, M. D., May, R. M. and Collie, A. R. 1991. Ecological aspects of the geographical distribution and diversity of mammalian species. - Am. Nat. 137: 791-815.
42. Panteleyev, P. A., Terekhina, A. N. and Varshavsky, A. A. 1990. [Ecogeographic variation in rodents.] - Nauka, in Russian with English summary.
43. Petrov, B. M. 1992. Mammals of Yugoslavia: insectivores and rodents. - Nat. Hist. Mus. Belgrade, Suppl. 37: 1-186.
44. Petrov, B. M. and Todorović, M. 1982. Dinaromys bogdanovi (V. et E. Martino 1922). - In: Niethammer, J. and Krapp, F. (eds), Handbuch der Säugetiere Europas. Band 2/I, Nagetiere II. Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft, pp. 193-208.
45. Radoman, P. 1985. Hydrobioidea, a superfamily of Prosobranchia (Gastropoda). II. Origin, zoogeography, evolution in the Balkans and Asia Minor. - Monogr. Fac. Sci. Dept Biol., Belgrade 1: 1-173.
46. Savič, I. and Soldatovič, B. 1984. Karyotype evolution and taxonomy of the genus Nannospalax Palmer, 1903, Mammalia, in Europe. - Serb. Acad. Sci. Arts, Separate Editions, Vol. DLX, Dept Nat. Math. Sci. 59: 1-104.
47. Schall, J. J. and Pianka, E. R. 1978. Geographic trends in species. - Science 201: 679-686.
48. Shnirelman, V. A. 1992. The emergence of a food producing economy in steppe and forest-steppe zones of eastern Europe. - J. Indo-European Stud. 22: 123-143.
49. Simpson, G. G. 1964. Species density of North American recent mammals. - Syst. Zool. 13: 57-73.
50. Sket, B. 1991. Richness and state of knowledge of the fauna of Yugoslavia: lower invertebrates. Metazoa: Invertebrata, ex. Insecta. - Biol. Vest. 39: 37-51.
51. Steiniger, F. F. and Rögl, F. 1996. Palaeogeography and palinspastic reconstructions of the Neogene of the Mediterranean and Paratethys. - In: Dixon, J. E. and Robertson, A. H. F. (eds), The geological evolution of the eastern Mediterranean. The Geol. Soc. of London, pp. 659-668.
52. Taberlet, P. et al. 1998. Comparative phylogeography and postglacial recolonization routes in Europe. - Mol. Ecol. 7: 453-464.
53. Tarasov, P. E. et al. 1998. Present-day and mid-Holocene biomes reconstructed from pollen and plant macrofossil data from the former Soviet Union and Mongolia. - J. Biogeogr. 25: 1029-1053.
54. Tzedakis, P. C. 1993. Long-term tree populations in northwest Greece through multiple Quaternary climatic cycles. - Nature 364: 437-440.
55. Vaughan, T. A. 1985. Mammalogy, 3rd ed. - Saunders College Publishing.
56. Vereshchagin, N. K. 1959. The mammals of the Caucasus, a history of the evolution of the fauna [English translation 1967]. - Israel Progr. for Sci. Translations.
57. Walter, H. 1979. Vegetation of the Earth and ecological systems of the geo-biosphere, 2nd ed. - Springer.
58. Willig, M. R. and Lyons, S. K. 1998. An analytical model of latitudinal gradients in species richness with an empirical test for marsupials and bats in the New World. - Oikos 81: 93-98.
59. Willis, K. J. 1994. The vegetational history of the Balkans. - Quat. Sci. Rev. 13: 769-788.
60. Wilson, D. and Reeder, D.-A. M. 1993. Mammal species of the world. A taxonomic and geographic reference, 2nd ed. - Smithsonian Inst. Press.