Assessing rodent community responses in disturbed environments of the chilean patagonia

Mammalia

Volumn 77, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 195-204

  García, Karla P ^a   Zapata, Juan Carlos Ortiz ^a   Aguayo, Mauricio ^b   D'Elia, Guillermo ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONCEPCIÓN   (Chile)

^b CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIÓN EN ECOSISTEMAS DE LA PATAGONIA CIEP   (Chile)

^c UNIVERSIDAD AUSTRAL DE CHILE   (Chile)

Author keywords

Chilean Patagonia; Community parameters; Land use; Perturbation; Sigmodontinae

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; COMMUNITY RESPONSE; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; GRASSLAND; HABITAT TYPE; LAND USE CHANGE; RODENT; SEASONALITY; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES EVENNESS; SPECIES RICHNESS;

CHILE; PATAGONIA;

ABROTHRIX LONGIPILIS; ABROTHRIX OLIVACEUS; AULISCOMYS MICROPUS; CHELEMYS MACRONYX; GEOXUS VALDIVIANUS; IRENOMYS TARSALIS; OLIGORYZOMYS LONGICAUDATUS; ORYZOMYS; REITHRODON AURITUS; RODENTIA; SIGMODONTINAE;

EID: 84879043179     PISSN: 00251461     EISSN: 18641547     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/mammalia-2011-0134     Document Type: Article

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