Burrowing rodents increase landscape heterogeneity in a desert grassland

Journal of Arid Environments

Volumn 72, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 1133-1145

  Davidson, A D ^a   Lightfoot, D C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

Author keywords

Banner tailed kangaroo rats; Biodiversity; Ecosystem engineers; Gunnison's prairie dogs; Keystone species

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; BURROWING ORGANISM; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DESERT; ECOSYSTEM ENGINEERING; GRASSLAND; HERBIVORY; HETEROGENEITY; KEYSTONE SPECIES; LANDSCAPE; PLANT COMMUNITY; RODENT; VEGETATION;

CHIHUAHUAN DESERT; NORTH AMERICA;

ANIMALIA; CANIS FAMILIARIS; CYNOMYS; CYNOMYS GUNNISONI; DIPODOMYS; DIPODOMYS SPECTABILIS; RATTUS; RODENTIA;

EID: 43849112196     PISSN: 01401963     EISSN: 1095922X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jaridenv.2007.12.015     Document Type: Article

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