Desert rodent communities are model systems for understanding the effects of environmental severity and pulsed resources on community assembly, structure, and dynamics; however, the unique characteristics of arid ecosystems require long-term studies to reveal patterns and underlying mechanisms. The 3 papers in this Special Feature demonstrate the novel insights that can be gained from long-term (>10 years) ecological research on desert rodent communities.
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16 August 2010
Long-term studies of small mammal communities in arid and semiarid environments
Paul Stapp
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Journal of Mammalogy
Vol. 91 • No. 4
August 2010
Vol. 91 • No. 4
August 2010
community structure
desert rodents
long-term research
rainfall
resource pulses