Climate warming increases biodiversity of small rodents by favoring rare or less abundant species in a grassland ecosystem

Integrative Zoology

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 162-174

  Jiang, Guangshun ^a,d   Liu, Jun ^b   Xu, Lei ^d   Yu, Guirui ^c   He, Honglin ^c   Zhang, Zhibin ^d  

^a NORTHEAST FORESTRY UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Inner Mongolia Center for Endemic Disease Control and Research   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHIC SCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES RESEARCH   (China)

^d INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Climate change; Cross correlation function; Rare species; Small mammal biodiversity; Time lag

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; CHINA; ECOSYSTEM; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; HISTORY; PHYSIOLOGY; POACEAE; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RODENT; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL MODEL; TIME;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; CHINA; ECOSYSTEM; GLOBAL WARMING; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; LINEAR MODELS; POACEAE; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RODENTIA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84884379714     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17494877     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1749-4877.12027     Document Type: Article

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