Rodent middens reveal episodic, long-distance plant colonizations across the hyperarid Atacama Desert over the last 34,000 years

Journal of Biogeography

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 510-525

  Díaz, Francisca P ^a,b   Latorre, Claudio ^a,b   Maldonado, Antonio ^c,d   Quade, Jay ^e   Betancourt, Julio L ^f  

^a PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE   (Chile)

^b INSTITUTO DE ECOLOGÍA Y BIODIVERSIDAD IEB   (Chile)

^c CENTRO DE ESTUDIOS AVANZADOS EN ZONAS ÁRIDAS CEAZA   (Chile)

^d DEPARTAMENTO DE BIOLOGÍA   (Chile)

^e The University of Arizona   (United States)

^f U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

Abrocoma; Aridland palaeoecology; Atacama Desert; Fog oases; Hyperarid environments; Late Quaternary; Lomas vegetation; Phyllotis; Rodent middens

Indexed keywords

ARID ENVIRONMENT; COLONIZATION; DESERT; EPISODIC EVENT; FOSSIL ASSEMBLAGE; INVASIVE SPECIES; MIDDEN; MOVEMENT; OASIS; PALEOBOTANY; PALEOECOLOGY; PALYNOLOGY; PLANT COMMUNITY; PROVENANCE; QUATERNARY; RADIOCARBON DATING; RODENT; SEED DISPERSAL; SPECIES RICHNESS; TAXONOMY; WATER LEVEL;

ANDES; ATACAMA DESERT; CHILE;

ABROCOMA; ANIMALIA; CAREX; PHYLLOTIS; RODENTIA;

EID: 84857114471     PISSN: 03050270     EISSN: 13652699     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2011.02617.x     Document Type: Article

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