Marine resources subsidize insular rodent populations in the Gulf of California, Mexico

Oecologia

Volumn 134, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 496-504

  Stapp, Paul ^a,b   Polis, Gary A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Chaetodipus rudinoris; Island ecology; Peromyscus maniculatus; Spatial subsidies

Indexed keywords

ISLAND; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; MARINE RESOURCE; NUTRIENT; POPULATION DENSITY; RODENT;

GULF OF CALIFORNIA; MEXICO; PACIFIC OCEAN;

ANIMALIA; CHAETODIPUS; CHAETODIPUS RUDINORIS; INVERTEBRATA; MAMMALIA; PEROMYSCUS; PEROMYSCUS MANICULATUS; RODENTIA;

EID: 0037336611     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-002-1146-7     Document Type: Article

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