Small mammal populations in a grazed and ungrazed riparian habitat in Nevada

Dean E. Medin; Warren P. Clary

doi:10.2737/INT-RP-413

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Small mammal populations in a grazed and ungrazed riparian habitat in Nevada

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Authors:

Dean E. Medin, Warren P. Clary

Year:

1989

Type:

Research Paper

Station:

Rocky Mountain Research Station

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.2737/INT-RP-413

Source:

Res. Pap. INT-413. Ogden, UT: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Intermountain Research Station. 6 p.

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Abstract

Small mammal populations were compared between a grazed habitat and a comparable adjoining habitat protected from grazing by an exclosure. Composition, naive densiiy, standing crop biomass, species diversity, and other attributes of the small mammal communities were assessed. More species and higher numbers of most small mammals were found in the ungrazed habitat.

Keywords

density, biomass, diversity, Peromyscus maniculatus, Zapus princeps, Tamias minimus, Perognathus parvus

Citation

Medin, Dean E.; Clary, Warren P. 1989. Small mammal populations in a grazed and ungrazed riparian habitat in Nevada. Res. Pap. INT-413. Ogden, UT: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Intermountain Research Station. 6 p.