[HTML][HTML] Mesoscale disturbance and ecological response to decadal climatic variability in the American Southwest

TW Swetnam, JL Betancourt - Journal of Climate, 1998 - journals.ametsoc.org
Mesoscale Disturbance and Ecological Response to Decadal Climatic Variability in the
American Southwest in: Journal of Climate Volume 11 Issue 12 (1998) Jump to Content …

Mammalian reservoirs of arenaviruses

J Salazar-Bravo, LA Ruedas, TL Yates - Arenaviruses I: the epidemiology …, 2002 - Springer
Arenaviruses are negative-stranded RNA viruses that have been isolated from several
species of mammals in various parts of the world. With two exceptions, these viruses have …

[BOOK][B] The biology of deserts

D Ward - 2016 - books.google.com
This book offers a concise but comprehensive introduction to desert ecology and adopts a
strong evolutionary focus. As with other titles in the Biology of Habitats Series, the emphasis …

The landscape of fear: the missing link to understand top‐down and bottom‐up controls of prey abundance?

JW Laundré, L Hernández, PL Medina… - Ecology, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Identifying factors that may be responsible for regulating the size of animal populations is a
cornerstone in understanding population ecology. The main factors that are thought to …

Rodents, plants, and precipitation: spatial and temporal dynamics of consumers and resources

SKM Ernest, JH Brown, RR Parmenter - Oikos, 2000 - Wiley Online Library
Resource/consumer dynamics are potentially mediated by both limiting resources and biotic
interactions. We examined temporal correlations between precipitation, plant cover, and …

Long-term dynamics of rodent populations in arid Australia: the influence of rainfall

CR Dickman, PS Mahon, P Masters… - Wildlife …, 1999 - CSIRO Publishing
Populations of rodents were studied for periods of 7− 9 years at each of three sites in arid
Australia. All species fluctuated dramatically in abundance, being absent or in low numbers …

El Niño effects on the dynamics and control of anisland ecosystem in the Gulf of California

GA Polis, SD Hurd, CT Jackson, FS Piñero - Ecology, 1997 - Wiley Online Library
The tremendous increase in precipitation associated with the 1992–1993 El Niño profoundly
affected terrestrial communities on arid islands in the Midriff region of the Gulf of California …

Rain and rodents: complex dynamics of desert consumers: although water is the primary limiting resource in desert ecosystems, the relationship between rodent …

JH Brown, SKM Ernest - BioScience, 2002 - academic.oup.com
TION IS COMPLEX AND NONLINEAR from precipitation to plants to herbivores and, by
implication, on upward through carnivores and higher trophic levels. According to this …

[BOOK][B] Oak forest ecosystems: ecology and management for wildlife

WJ McShea, WM Healy - 2002 - books.google.com
Oak Forest Ecosystems focuses on the relationship between an oak forest's acorn yield and
species of wildlife that depend on it. It begins by treating factors such as oak distribution …

The responses of small mammals and lizards to post-fire succession and rainfall in arid Australia

M Letnic, CR Dickman, MK Tischler, B Tamayo… - Journal of Arid …, 2004 - Elsevier
We report a landscape-scale study investigating the responses of small mammals and
lizards to fire in a central Australian hummock grassland. Vertebrates were surveyed on 26 …