Space invaders? A search for patterns underlying the coexistence of alien black rats and Galápagos rice rats

Oecologia

Volumn 149, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 276-288

  Harris, Donna B ^a   Gregory, Stephen D ^a   Macdonald, David W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cactus; Introduced species; Microhabitat; Spatial segregation

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; CACTUS; COEXISTENCE; HABITAT; INTERFERENCE COMPETITION; INTERSPECIFIC INTERACTION; INTRODUCED SPECIES; MICROHABITAT; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; RODENT;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; DEMOGRAPHY; ECOSYSTEM; ECUADOR; PHYSIOLOGY; RAT; SIGMODONTINAE;

ANIMALS; DEMOGRAPHY; ECOSYSTEM; ECUADOR; RATS; SIGMODONTINAE;

ECUADOR; GALAPAGOS ISLANDS; PACIFIC ISLANDS; PACIFIC OCEAN; SAN SALVADOR [GALAPAGOS ISLANDS]; SOUTH AMERICA;

CACTACEAE; NESORYZOMYS SWARTHI; OPUNTIA; ORYZOMYS GALAPAGOENSIS; ORYZOMYS PALUSTRIS NATATOR; RATTUS RATTUS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 33747077226     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-006-0447-7     Document Type: Article

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