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- Title
Small mammal community structure and dynamics in aridlands: overall patterns and contrasts with Southern Hemispheric systems.
- Authors
Meserve, Peter L.; Dickman, Christopher R.; Kelt, Douglas A.
- Abstract
Aridlands offer unique opportunities to compare effects of history, evolution, and local geography on assemblage and dynamics of small mammal communities that have severe environmental constraints. Pioneering work in Northern Hemispheric aridlands resulted in paradigms that were assumed to be general. Because the evolutionary history and biogeography of Southern Hemispheric aridlands have been distinct, they offer unusual opportunities to test this assumption.We present 6 papers in this Special Feature that show that Southern Hemispheric aridlands have developed and evolved in many unique directions.
- Subjects
SOUTHERN Hemisphere; ARID regions; MAMMALS; GEOGRAPHY; BIOTIC communities; DESERT animals; DESERT ecology
- Publication
Journal of Mammalogy, 2011, Vol 92, Issue 6, p1155
- ISSN
0022-2372
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1644/11-MAMM-S-186.1