Conversion of sagebrush shrublands to exotic annual grasslands negatively impacts small mammal communities

Diversity and Distributions

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 863-870

  Ostoja, Steven M ^a,b   Schupp, Eugene W ^b  

^a UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

Big sagebrush; Biological invasions; Great Basin desert; Rodent communities; Small mammals

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL INVASION; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; GRASSLAND; HUMAN ACTIVITY; INTRODUCED SPECIES; NATIVE SPECIES; RODENT; SHRUB; SHRUBLAND; SPECIES EVENNESS; SPECIES RICHNESS;

BASIN AND RANGE PROVINCE; GREAT BASIN; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

ARTEMISIA; ARTEMISIA TRIDENTATA; ARTEMISIA TRIDENTATA WYOMINGENSIS; BROMUS; BROMUS TECTORUM; MAMMALIA; RODENTIA;

EID: 69249120806     PISSN: 13669516     EISSN: 14724642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1472-4642.2009.00593.x     Document Type: Article

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