Geographical ecology of South American desert small mammals: consequences of observations at local and regional scales
Abstract
Five major drylands in South American display very low levels of faunal similarity. The remarkable consistency of faunal structure, however, suggests that it may be possible to extend earlier conclusions based only on the mammal fauna of the Altiplano and the Atacama Desert to all of South America’s arid lands.
Five major drylands in South American display very low levels of faunal similarity. The remarkable consistency of faunal structure, however, suggests that it may be possible to extend earlier conclusions based only on the mammal fauna of the Altiplano and the Atacama Desert to all of South America’s arid lands.
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Keywords: South America; biogeography; cross-scale patterns; desert small mammals; elevational gradient; latitudinal gradient; neotropics; spatial scale; species–area relations
Document Type: Correspondence
Affiliations: 1: Department of Wildlife, Fish and Conservation Biology, University of California, Davis, CA 95616 USA. Email:, Email: [email protected] 2: Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas, Departamento de Ecología, Universidad Católica de Chile, Casilla 114-D, Santiago, Chile. Email:, Email: [email protected] 3: Department of Biology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131 USA. Email:, Email: [email protected]
Publication date: 2000-06-01
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