Great Basin Naturalist
Abstract
New records for bushy-tailed wood rat (Neotoma cinerea) on the White Mountains of eastern California increase the elevation from which this animal is known on the White Mountains, outside of human habitation, from 3,120 to 3,648 m. These records, coupled with archaeological data, suggest that the isolated bouldery outcrops occupied by bushy-tailed wood rats above timberline here are true habitat islands, occasionally colonized by dispersing individuals and characterized by frequent local extinction.
Recommended Citation
Grayson, Donald K. and Livingston, Stephanie D.
(1989)
"High-elevation records for Neotoma cinerea in the White Mountains, California,"
Great Basin Naturalist: Vol. 49:
No.
3, Article 7.
Available at:
https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/gbn/vol49/iss3/7