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Habitat associations of the rodent community in a Grand Prairie preserve

Authors :
Nicholas S. Green
Kenneth T. Wilkins
Source :
The Southwestern Naturalist. 59:349-355
Publication Year :
2014
Publisher :
Southwestern Association of Naturalists, 2014.

Abstract

We measured habitat associations in the rodent fauna at the Lyndon B. Johnson National Grassland in north-central Texas from May to August 2011. We recorded five species: hispid cotton rat (Sigmodon hispidus) was most abundant, followed by deer mouse (Peromyscus maniculatus), hispid pocket mouse (Chaetodipus hispidus), fulvous harvest mouse (Reithrodontomys fulvescens), and white-footed mouse (P. leucopus). Cotton rat density increased with grass cover; this effect was stronger for lower and middle quantiles of the abundance distribution. We found weak habitat correlates for P. maniculatus and R. fulvescens. This report is one of few describing the mammalian fauna of the vanishing Grand Prairie ecoregion.

Details

ISSN :
19436262 and 00384909
Volume :
59
Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
The Southwestern Naturalist
Accession number :
edsair.doi...........048c5eb47fc938c0122944da885ffba3
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1894/tal-61.1