Intra- and interspecific interactions and environmental factors determine spatial–temporal species assemblages of rodents in arid grasslands

Landscape Ecology

Volumn 30, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 1643-1655

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

^a NORTHEAST FORESTRY UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (China)

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

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

Author keywords

Density dependence; Environmental filter; Rodent community; Species assemblage; Species competition and coexistence

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ARID ENVIRONMENT; COEXISTENCE; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GRASSLAND; INTERSPECIFIC INTERACTION; INTRASPECIFIC INTERACTION; POPULATION STRUCTURE; RARE SPECIES; RODENT; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

CHINA; NEI MONGGOL;

MAMMALIA; RODENTIA;

EID: 84942503591     PISSN: 09212973     EISSN: 15729761     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10980-014-0039-6     Document Type: Article

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