Faculty of 1000 evaluation for Environmental change and declining resource availability for small mammal communities in the Great Basin.

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
M Denise Dearing
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Change ◽  
Great Basin ◽  
Small Mammal ◽  
Resource Availability ◽  
Small Mammal Communities ◽  
Mammal Communities

scholarly journals The dead do not lie: using skeletal remains for rapid assessment of historical small-mammal community baselines

2009 ◽  
Vol 277 (1685) ◽  
pp. 1193-1201 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rebecca C. Terry
Keyword(s):  
Great Basin ◽  
Small Mammal ◽  
Rapid Assessment ◽  
Skeletal Remains ◽  
Quality Data ◽  
Baseline Shift ◽  
Small Mammal Community ◽  
Small Mammal Communities ◽  
Mammal Community ◽  
Mammal Communities

Conservation and restoration efforts are often hindered by a lack of historical baselines that pre-date intense anthropogenic environmental change. In this paper I document that natural accumulations of skeletal remains represent a potential source of high-quality data on the historical composition and structure of small-mammal communities. I do so by assessing the fidelity of modern, decadal and centennial-scale time-averaged samples of skeletal remains (concentrated by raptor predation) to the living small-mammal communities from which they are derived. To test the power of skeletal remains to reveal baseline shifts, I employ the design of a natural experiment, comparing two taphonomically similar Great Basin cave localities in areas where anthropogenic land-use practices have diverged within the last century. I find relative stasis at the undisturbed site, but document rapid restructuring of the small-mammal community at the site subjected to recent disturbance. I independently validate this result using historical trapping records to show that dead remains accurately capture both the magnitude and direction of this baseline shift. Surveys of skeletal remains therefore provide a simple, powerful and rapid alternative approach for gaining insight into the historical structure and dynamics of modern small-mammal communities.

Small mammal communities in forest ecosystems affected by urbanization

2014 ◽  
Vol 45 (6) ◽  
pp. 490-497 ◽  
Author(s):  
N. F. Chernousova ◽  
O. V. Tolkach ◽  
O. E. Dobrotvorskaya
Keyword(s):  
Small Mammal ◽  
Forest Ecosystems ◽  
Small Mammal Communities ◽  
Mammal Communities

scholarly journals Context-Dependent Effects of Largewildlife Declines on Small-Mammal Communities in Central Kenya

2015 ◽  
Vol 96 (1) ◽  
pp. 157-160
Author(s):  
Hillary S. Young ◽  
Douglas J. McCauley ◽  
Rodolfo Dirzo ◽  
Jacob R. Goheen ◽  
Bernard Agwanda ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Small Mammal ◽  
Small Mammal Communities ◽  
Context Dependent ◽  
Mammal Communities ◽  
Central Kenya

Changes in small mammal communities after logging in north-central Ontario

1983 ◽  
Vol 61 (5) ◽  
pp. 970-980 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arthur M. Martell
Keyword(s):  
Small Mammals ◽  
Small Mammal ◽  
Vegetative Cover ◽  
North Central ◽  
Clear Cut ◽  
Clear Cutting ◽  
Small Mammal Community ◽  
Small Mammal Communities ◽  
Mammal Community ◽  
Mammal Communities

Changes in small mammal communities following logging were monitored in clear-cut and strip-cut upland black spruce (Picea mariana) stands and in selectively cut mixed wood stands in north-central Ontario. Clear-cutting and subsequent scarification essentially eliminated the vegetative cover. Much of the ground cover recovered within 5 years and shrubs within 12 years, but mosses and lichens took much longer. The small mammal community in both clear-cut and strip-cut stands changed over the first three years after logging from one dominated by southern red-backed voles (Clethrionomys gapperi) to one dominated by deer mice (Peromyscus maniculatus) and then remained relatively stable for up to 13 years after harvest. That shift was not apparent in selectively cut mixed wood stands where the composition of the small mammal community was similar between uncut stands and stands 4–23 years after harvest. There was relatively little change in total numbers of small mammals after logging. In general, the diversity and evenness of small mammals increased or remained stable in the first 1–3 years following harvest, decreased on older (3–16 years) cuts, and then increased to values similar to those in uncut stands on the oldest (19–23 years) cuts.

The effects of various forest uses on small mammal communities in Sarawak, Malaysia

2006 ◽  
Vol 231 (1-3) ◽  
pp. 55-62 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michiko Nakagawa ◽  
Hideo Miguchi ◽  
Tohru Nakashizuka
Keyword(s):  
Small Mammal ◽  
Small Mammal Communities ◽  
Mammal Communities
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