| rapid genetic restoration of a keystone species exhibiting delayed demographic response. | genetic founder effects are often expected when animals colonize restored habitat in fragmented landscapes, but empirical data on genetic responses to restoration are limited. we examined the genetic response of banner-tailed kangaroo rats (dipodomys spectabilis) to landscape-scale grassland restoration in the chihuahuan desert of new mexico, usa. dipodomys spectabilis is a grassland specialist and keystone species. at sites treated with herbicide to remove shrubs, colonization by d. spectabilis ... | 2015 | 26577599 |
| small mammal survival and trapability in mark-recapture monitoring programs for hantavirus. | following the 1993 hantavirus pulmonary syndrome (hps) epidemic in the south-western united states, mammalogists and epidemiologists instituted long-term studies to monitor population density and prevalence of infection in rodents which constitute the reservoir for sin nombre virus (snv). in this study, field techniques used in sampling small mammals for snv infection were evaluated to determine if trapping and handling protocols were having significant effects on future trapability or mortality ... | 1998 | 9476220 |
| helminths of sympatric populations of kangaroo rats (dipodomys ordii) and grasshopper mice (onychomys leucogaster) from the high plains of eastern new mexico. | during a 1-yr period 124 dipodomys ordii and 92 onychomys leucogaster were trapped from the same locality and were examined for helminths. only 1 cestode species (catenotaenia linsdalei) was recovered from d. ordii, whereas o. leucogaster was infected with 2 nematoda (litomosoides carinii, mastophorus muris), 2 cestoda (hymenolepis citelli, and 1 unknown), and 1 acanthocephalan (moniliformis clarki) species. all represent new host and distribution records. | 1985 | 4057002 |