El Niño events, the lean versus fat scenario, and long-term guild dynamics of vertebrate predators in a South American semiarid ecosystem

Austral Ecology

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 225-238

  Farias, Ariel A ^a   Jaksic, Fabian M ^a  

^a PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE   (Chile)

Author keywords

El Ni o; Guild structure; Lean fat scenario; South America

Indexed keywords

EL NINO; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; GUILD; GUILD STRUCTURE; NICHE OVERLAP; PREDATOR; PREY AVAILABILITY; RESOURCE AVAILABILITY; SEMIARID REGION; VERTEBRATE;

SOUTH AMERICA;

ARTHROPODA; MAMMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 33847418847     PISSN: 14429985     EISSN: 14429993     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1442-9993.2007.01684.x     Document Type: Article

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