Two decades of climate driving the dynamics of functional and taxonomic diversity of a tropical small mammal community in western Mexico

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Volumn 12, Issue 12, 2017, Pages

  Mason Romo, Edgard David ^a   Farías, Ariel A ^b   Ceballos, Gerardo ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE ECOLOGÍA   (Mexico)

^b Centro Universitario Regional del Este (CURE)   (Uruguay)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RAIN;

ARTICLE; BIOMASS; CLIMATE; DROUGHT; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; FLOODING; HURRICANE; MAMMAL; MEXICO; NONHUMAN; ORGANISM COMMUNITY; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; RIPARIAN ECOSYSTEM; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES HABITAT; TAXONOMY; TROPIC CLIMATE; ANIMAL; CLASSIFICATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; FOREST; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; CLIMATE CHANGE; FORESTS; MAMMALS; MEXICO; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 85038431193     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0189104     Document Type: Article

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