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Influences of island characteristics on community structure and species incidence of desert bats in a near-shore archipelago, Baja California, Mexico

Creator:

Frick, Winifred F.

Abstract:

Island biogeography has strongly influenced the study of biodiversity because archipelagos provide natural model systems for investigating patterns of diversity and the processes that shape ecological communities. I investigated the influence of area and isolation of islands (n = 32) in the Gulf of California, Mexico on patterns of richness,...

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Dissertation

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persistence rates on islands. Bat communities were also nested at 27 sites in coastal habitat on the Baja