Climate-induced changes in the small mammal communities of the Northern Great Lakes Region

• Published in: Global change biology Vol. 15; no. 6; pp. 1434 - 1454
• Main Authors: MYERS, PHILIP, LUNDRIGAN, BARBARA L, HOFFMAN, SUSAN M.G, HARAMINAC, ALLISON POOR, SETO, STEPHANIE H
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford, UK Oxford, UK : Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.06.2009; Blackwell Publishing Ltd; Wiley-Blackwell
• Subjects: Animal and plant ecology; Animal populations; Animal, plant and microbial ecology; Biodiversity; Biological and medical sciences; Climate change; climatic warming; Climatology. Bioclimatology. Climate change; Didelphis virginiana; Earth, ocean, space; Ecosystem studies; Exact sciences and technology; External geophysics; Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology; General aspects; Glaucomys sabrinus; Glaucomys volans; Great Lakes; Mammals; Meteorology; Michigan; Peromyscus leucopus; Peromyscus maniculatus gracilis; Tamias minimus; Tamias striatus; Great Lakes; Michigan; United States; North America; America; Canada, Northern Great Lakes; Warming; Glaucomys sabrinus; Climate; Rodentia; Tamias minimus; Peromyscus leucopus; Micromammals; Great Lakes; Michigan; Dynamical climatology; Climatic condition; Climate change; Vertebrata; Didelphis virginiana; Glaucomys volans; Mammalia; Tamias striatus; Marsupialia; Lakes; Peromyscus maniculatus; climatic warming; Community; Peromyscus maniculatus gracilis

We use museum and other collection records to document large and extraordinarily rapid changes in the ranges and relative abundance of nine species of mammals in the northern Great Lakes region (white-footed mice, woodland deer mice, southern red-backed voles, woodland jumping mice, eastern chipmunk...