Micro- and macrohabitat associations in mojave desert rodent communities

Journal of Mammalogy

Volumn 90, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 388-403

  Stevens, Richard D ^a   Tello, J Sebastián ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Community structure; Desert rodent; Habitat selection; Macrohabitat; Metacommunity; Microhabitat; Scale; Scale dependence; Spatial processes

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; COEXISTENCE; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; HABITAT SELECTION; MICROHABITAT; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; RODENT;

MOJAVE DESERT; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

POACEAE; RODENTIA;

EID: 65949090729     PISSN: 00222372     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1644/08-MAMM-A-141.1     Document Type: Article

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