Spatial variation in keystone effects: Small mammal diversity associated with black-tailed prairie dog colonies

Ecography

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 667-677

  Cully, Jack F ^a   Collinge, Sharon K ^b   Van Nimwegen, Ron E ^a   Ray, Chris ^b   Johnson, Whitney C ^b   Thiagarajan, Bala ^a   Conlin, David B ^b   Holmes, Brian E ^c  

^a KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c Kansas State Univ ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BURROW; COEXISTENCE; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; ECOLOGICAL ENGINEERING; GRASSLAND; HABITAT QUALITY; KEYSTONE SPECIES; LATITUDINAL GRADIENT; LONGITUDINAL GRADIENT; RANGE SIZE; RODENT; SPATIAL VARIATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES EVENNESS; SPECIES RICHNESS; VEGETATION STRUCTURE;

ANIMALIA; CANIS FAMILIARIS; CYNOMYS; CYNOMYS LUDOVICIANUS; MAMMALIA; RODENTIA;

EID: 77957166108     PISSN: 09067590     EISSN: 16000587     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0587.2009.05746.x     Document Type: Article

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