Burrowing rodents as ecosystem engineers: the ecology and management of plateau zokors Myospalax fontanierii in alpine meadow ecosystems on the Tibetan Plateau
By Yanming Zhang, Zhibin Zhang, Ji-ke Liu. 2003
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Subfields: Ecology
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Citations in the corpus
- Population dynamics and responses to management of plateau pikas Ochotona curzoniae (2007, background): “A similar situation applies to Brandt’s vole in Inner Mongolia (Zhang et al. 2003).”
- Habitat engineering under dry conditions: The impact of pikas (Ochotona pallasi) on vegetation and site conditions in southern Mongolian steppes (2007, background): “Such observations have triggered a vigorous discussion on their potential status as pest species, and whether or not they should be controlled by large-scale poisoning (Smith & Foggin 1999; Zhang et al. 2003a; Zhang et al. 2003b).”
- Is the loss of Australian digging mammals contributing to a deterioration in ecosystem function (2014, background): “…Whitford & Kay 1999) is a mechanical form of ecosystem engineering that alters physical and biotic processes (Reichman & Seabloom 2002, James et al. 2009), increases soil mixing (Zhang et al. 2003) and has been associated with promoting species diversity (Ceballos 1999, Davidson et al. 2008).”
- Keystone rodent interactions: prairie dogs and kangaroo rats structure the biotic composition of a desertified grassland (2006, background): “The loss of arid grasslands to desertification and declines in similar keystone rodents is a world-wide phenomenon (Schlesinger et al. 1990, Whitford 1997, Branch et al. 1999, Whitford 2002, Lai and Smith 2003, Zhang et al. 2003).”
- Burrowing rodents increase landscape heterogeneity in a desert grassland (2008, background): “…(Myospalax fontanierii), and badgers (Taxidea taxis), and the digs of Indian crested porcupines (Hystrix indica), provide novel habitats that favor distinct assemblages of species relative to the surrounding unmodified landscapes (Branch et al., 1999; Wright et al., 2006; Zhang et al., 2003).”