Biogeographic significance of low-elevation records for Neotoma cinerea from the northern Bonneville Basin, Utah

Authors

Donald K. Grayson, University of Washington, Seattle
Stephanie D. Livingston, Quaternary Sciences Center, Desert Research Institute, Reno, Nevada
Eric Rickart, University of Utah
Monson W. Shaver III, Utah Geological Survey, Salt Lake City

Abstract

The existence of low-elevation populations of Neotoma cinera in the northern Bonneville Basin shows either that these mammals can survive thousands of years in xeric habitats or that they can move across xeric lowlands far more readily than has been appreciated, or both. Current models of Great Basin small mammal biogeography are far too static to encompass properly the interaction of the wide range of geographical and biological variability that has produced the modern distribution of those mammals that have, for several decades, been treated as "montane" within the Great Basin.

Recommended Citation

Grayson, Donald K.; Livingston, Stephanie D.; Rickart, Eric; and Shaver, Monson W. III (1996) "Biogeographic significance of low-elevation records for Neotoma cinerea from the northern Bonneville Basin, Utah," Great Basin Naturalist: Vol. 56: No. 3, Article 1.
Available at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/gbn/vol56/iss3/1