Do Red Squirrel Middens Promote Vertebrate Species Diversity?
The modifications animals make to their environments can be critical to species diversity. Red squirrels (Tamiasciurus hudsonicus) create large piles of conifer cone debris (middens) and are hypothesized to function as a keystone species due to positive associations between middens and other vertebr...
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The University of Arizona.
2013
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10150/294022 |