Legacies of land use and recent climatic change: The small mammal fauna in the mountains of utah

American Naturalist

Volumn 170, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 242-257

  Rowe, Rebecca J ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Faunal change; Livestock grazing; Natural history collections; Small mammals; Utah

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CLIMATE CHANGE; LAND USE; MAMMAL; MITIGATION; MOUNTAIN ENVIRONMENT;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CATTLE; CLASSIFICATION; CLIMATE; ECOSYSTEM; MAMMAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SHEEP; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; CLIMATE; ECOSYSTEM; MAMMALS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SHEEP; UTAH;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; UTAH;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 34547674850     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/518948     Document Type: Article

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