Intra-guild compensation regulates species richness in desert rodents

Ecology

Volumn 86, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 567-573

  Goheen, Jacob R ^a   White, Ethan P ^a,b   Ernest, S K Morgan ^a,b   Brown, James H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^b UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Chihuahuan Desert, Portal, Arizona (USA); Colonization extinction dynamics; Competition; Desert rodents; Local richness; Randomization test; Regional species pool; Species compensation

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; INTRAGUILD INTERACTION; RODENT; SPECIES RICHNESS;

ARIZONA; CHIHUAHUAN DESERT; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

RODENTIA;

EID: 15244345193     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/04-1475     Document Type: Article

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