Keystone rodent interactions: prairie dogs and kangaroo rats structure the biotic composition of a desertified grassland

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Comparative ecology of desert small mammals: a selective review of the past 30 years (2011, background): “In northern Mexico the structure of plant communities on mounds of both C. ludovicianus and D. spectabilis differed significantly from nonmound sites (Davidson and Lightfoot 2006).”
Interactive effects of keystone rodents on the structure of desert grassland arthropod communities (2007, background): “Prairie dogs (Cynomys spp.) and banner-tailed kangaroo rats are often considered keystone species and ecosystem engineers of grasslands (Valone et al. 1995, Kotliar 2000, Davidson and Lightfoot 2006, and see citations in Kotliar et al. 2006), although the keystone status of prairie dogs is based l”
Burrowing rodents increase landscape heterogeneity in a desert grassland (2008, methodology): “…and vegetation structure associated with mound disturbance patches we established replicate mound-scale plots, consisting of paired mound and non-mound control plots, a design similar to that used by Davidson and Lightfoot (2006), Guo (1996), Hawkins and Nicoletto (1992) and others (Fig.”