Small mammal assemblages and habitat distribution in the northern Junggar Basin, Xinjiang, China: A pilot survey

Mammalia

Volumn 72, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 309-319

  Giraudoux, Patrick ^a   Zhou, Hongxia ^b   Quéré, Jean Pierre ^c   Raoul, Francis ^a   Delattre, Pierre ^c   Volobouev, Vitaly ^d   Déforêt, Thomas ^a   Ito, Akira ^e   Mamuti, Wulamu ^f   Scheifler, Renaud ^a   Craig, Philip Simon ^g  

^a université Bourgogne Franche Comté   (France)

^b GUANGXI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c CENTRE DE BIOLOGIE ET DE GESTION DES POPULATIONS   (France)

^d MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

^e ASAHIKAWA MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Japan)

^f XINJIANG MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^g UNIVERSITY OF SALFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Community; Grassland; Mountain; Scale; Semi desert

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; DEMOGRAPHIC SURVEY; DOMINANCE; GRASSLAND; HABITAT AVAILABILITY; MOUNTAIN ENVIRONMENT; POPULATION ESTIMATION; SMALL MAMMAL; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES-AREA RELATIONSHIP;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; JUNGGAR BASIN; XINJIANG UYGUR;

APODEMUS PENINSULAE; APODEMUS URALENSIS; CRICETULUS; CRICETULUS MIGRATORIUS; ELLOBIUS TANCREI; ISODON; MAMMALIA; MICROTUS AGRESTIS; MICROTUS OBSCURUS; MICROTUS OECONOMUS; RUTILUS; SCIURIDAE; SOREX ISODON; SPERMOPHILUS ERYTHROGENYS;

EID: 57149089515     PISSN: 00251461     EISSN: 18641547     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/MAMM.2008.048     Document Type: Article

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