Rain and Rodents: Complex Dynamics of Desert Consumers
Open Access
- 1 January 2002
- journal article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in BioScience
- Vol. 52 (11), 979-987
- https://doi.org/10.1641/0006-3568(2002)052[0979:rarcdo]2.0.co;2
Abstract
Water is the lifeblood of the desert. It comes in rains that are typically scant and sporadic, but can be so intense as to cause flooding. Because water is theKeywords
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