Responses of a heteromyid rodent community to large- and small-scale resource pulses: Diversity, abundance, and home-range dynamics

Journal of Mammalogy

Volumn 88, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1280-1287

  Orland, Mary C ^a   Kelt, Douglas A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Chaetodipus formosus; Coexistence; El Ni o; Environmental variability; Productivity; Sonoran Desert; Spatial scale; Territoriality

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; COEXISTENCE; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; COMMUNITY RESPONSE; EL NINO; FOOD AVAILABILITY; HOME RANGE; RESOURCE AVAILABILITY; RODENT; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TERRITORIALITY;

NORTH AMERICA; SONORAN DESERT;

ANIMALIA; CHAETODIPUS FORMOSUS; HETEROMYIDAE; MUS; RODENTIA;

EID: 35548929452     PISSN: 00222372     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1644/06-MAMM-A-408.1     Document Type: Article

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