Interactive effects of fire and nonnative plants on small mammals in Grasslands

Wildlife Monographs

Volumn , Issue 176, 2011, Pages 1-31

  Litt, Andrea R ^a,b   Steidl, Robert J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

community composition; Eragrostis lehmanniana; fire; gradient; grasslands; heterogeneity; invasion; Lehmann lovegrass; nonnative species; populations; restoration; small mammals

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; CHAETODIPUS; ERAGROSTIS; ERAGROSTIS LEHMANNIANA; HETEROMYIDAE; MAMMALIA; MURIDAE; MUS; ONYCHOMYS; PEROGNATHUS; POACEAE; REITHRODONTOMYS; SIGMODON;

EID: 79957878504     PISSN: 00840173     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1002/wmon.2     Document Type: Article

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