Al analizar egagrópilas de Bubo virginianus magellanicus colectadas en el Parque Nacional "Torres del Paine", se encontraron restos de Notiomys macronyx alleni y Eligmodontia typus typus. Esto permitió confirmar por primera ...

Eligmodontia morgani and E. typus are two small (<25 g) sigmodontine rodents that live in dry areas of southern Argentina. The species are very difficult to distinguish in the field, so their geographical delimitation has ...

Hoarding food is an important strategy of rodents in desert environments characterized by unpredict- able and poor food resource availability. In the Monte Desert, Prosopis produces abundant food, unevenly in time and ...

Modes of locomotion and escape tactics are attributes that affect the structure of animal communities, promoting exploitation of different microhabitats and the coexistence of different species. Bipedal locomotion is ...

In the temperate desert of Argentina, the combined action of climatic and anthropogenic factors has contributed to the formation of a highly heterogeneous landscape. In the central region of the Monte desert, four small ...

Rodents have developed a great capacity to for finding and storing seeds, and the ability of each species to find seeds in sufficient numbers could determine rodent abundance. To investigate this ability, we compared the ...

Fleas associated with small mammals from the Argentinean Monte Desert, were examined. The research was carried out in Ñacuñán Biosphere Reserve (34°02´S, 67°58´W), in the Chaqueña Biogeographic Subregion of the Neotropical ...

Los bosques de Prosopis flexuosa proporcionan múltiples bienes y servicios. Actualmente, sufren una fuerte retracción debido a un uso histórico extractivista y se hace necesario promover la conservación y el manejo sostenible ...

Se estudió la comunidad de pequeños mamíferos terrestres (<500 g) del Parque Nacional Lihué Calel (37°57’S, 65°33’O, provincia de La Pampa, Argentina) en 1993 y entre los años 2003 y 2006. Se documentaron datos sobre ...