Publications

  1. Meserve, P. L., E. J. Shadrick, and D. A. Kelt.  1987.  Diets and selectivity of two Chilean predators in the northern semi-arid zone.  Revista Chilena de Historia Natural 60:93-99.

  2. Kelt, D. A.  1988.  Dipodomys heermanni.  Mammalian Species 323:1-7.

  3. Kelt, D. A.  1988.  Dipodomys californicus.  Mammalian Species 324:1-4.

  4. Kelt, D. A., and D. R. Martínez.  1989.  Notes on the distribution and ecology of two marsupials endemic to the Valdivian forests of southern South America.  Journal of Mammalogy 70:220-224.

  5. Meserve, P. L. and D. A. Kelt.  1990.  The role of aridity and isolation on central Chilean small mammals: a reply to Caviedes and Iriarte (1989).  Journal of Biogeography 17:681-684.

  6. Meserve, P. L. and D. A. Kelt.  1990.  A further reply to Caviedes.  Journal of Biogeography 17:687-688.

  7. Beaucournu, J. C., and D. A. Kelt.  1990.  Contribución a la faune du Chili: puces nouvelles ou peu connues de la partie sud (Insecta, Siphonaptera).  Revue suisse du Zoologie 97:647-668.

  8. Kelt, D. A.  1991.  Flowers and color.  Timetracks 11:7. (publication of the New Mexico Museum of Natural History)

  9. Kelt, D. A., R. E. Palma, M. H. Gallardo, and J. Cook.  1991.  Chromosomal multiformity in Eligmodontia (Muridae, Sigmodontinae), and verification of the status of E. morgani.  Zeitschrift für Säugetierkunde 56:352-358.

  10. Meserve, P. L., D. A. Kelt, and D. R. Martínez.  1991.  Geographical ecology of small mammals in continental Chile Chico, South America.  Journal of Biogeography 18:179-187.

  11. Kelt, D. A.  1992.  Flowers and color.  Wildflower Magazine.  (popular audience)

  12. Kelt, D. A.  1992.  Composition and biogeography of small mammals in northwestern Illinois based on pitfall trapping.  Transactions of the Illinois State Academy of Sciences 84:175-184.

  13. Kelt, D. A., and R. E. Palma.  1992.  A plea for adequate citation of authors of taxa in systematic studies.  Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 105:411-413

  14. Kelt, D. A.  Irenomys tarsalis.  1993.  Mammalian Species 447:1-3.

  15. Kelt, D. A.  1994.  The natural history of small mammals from Aisén Province, southern Chile.  Revista Chilena de Historia Natural 67:183-207.

  16. Kelt, D. A., and M. H. Gallardo.  1994.  A new tuco-tuco (Rodentia: Ctenomyidae) in Chile, with comments on its biology and systematic implications.  Journal of Mammalogy 75:338-348.

  17. Kelt, D. A., P. L. Meserve, and B. K. Lang.  1994.  Quantitative habitat associations of small mammals in a temperate rainforest in southern Chile: empirical patterns and the importance of ecological scale.  Journal of Mammalogy 75:890-904.

  18. Morton, S. R., J. H. Brown, D. A. Kelt, and J. R. W. Reid.  1994.  Comparisons of community structure among small mammals of North American and Australian deserts.  Australian Journal of Zoology 42:501-525.  

  19. Kelt, D. A. 1995. Assembly of communities over time and space: a modelling approach to macroecological dynamics. Mastozoología Neotropical 2:228.

  20. Mehlman, D. W, U. L. Shepherd, and D. A. Kelt.  1995.  Bootstrapping principal components analysis: reflections on Jackson (1993).  Ecology 76:640-643.  (pdf file)

  21. Kelt, D. A., M. Taper, and P. L. Meserve.  1995.  Assessing the impact of competition on community assembly: a case study using small mammals.  Ecology 76:1283-1296. (pdf file)

  22. Kelt, D. A., and T. J. Valone.  1995.  Effects of grazing on the abundance and diversity of annual plants in Chihuahuan Desert scrub habitat.  Oecologia 103:191-195.

  23. Kelt, D. A.  1996.  Ecology of small mammals across a strong environmental gradient in southern South America.  Journal of Mammalogy 77:205-219

  24. Kelt, D. A., J. H. Brown, E. J. Heske, P. A. Marquet, S. R. Morton, J. R. W. Reid, K. A. Rogovin, and G. Shenbrot. 1996.  Community structure of desert small mammals: comparisons across four continents.  Ecology 77:746-761.  (pdf file)

  25. Kelt, D. A.  1997.  Floral color change in Errazurizia megacarpa, a Sonoran desert shrub. Canadian Journal of Botany 75:955-959.

  26. Kelt, D. A.  1997.  Assembly of communities: consequences of an optimal body size for the organization of competitively structured communities.  Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 62:15-37.

  27. Kelt, D. A., and J. H. Brown. 1999.  Macroecology and body size diversification.  Pp. 109-131 (Ch. 15), in (M. L. McKinney and J. A. Drake, editors), Biodiversity dynamics: origination and extinction of populations, species, communities, and higher taxa.  Columbia University Press.

  28. Kelt, D. A., and D. Van Vuren.  1999. On the relationship between body size and home range area: consequences of energetic constraints in mammals.  Ecology 80:337-400. (pdf file)

  29. Kelt, D. A.  1999.  Assemblage structure and quantitative habitat relations of small mammals along an ecological gradient in the Colorado Desert of southern California.  Ecography 22:659-673.

  30. Kelt, D. A., P. L. Meserve, B. D. Patterson, and B. K. Lang.  1999.  Scale dependence and scale independence in habitat associations of Small Mammals in Southern Temperate Rainforest.  Oikos 85:320-334.

  31. Kelt, D. A.  1999. On the relative importance of history and ecology in structuring communities of desert small mammals.  Ecography 22:123-137.

  32. Kelt, D. A., and J. H. Brown.  1999.  Community structure and assembly rules: confronting conceptual and statistical issues with data on desert rodents. Pp. 75-107 (Ch. 3) in (E. Weiher and P. A. Keddy) Ecological assembly rules – perspectives, advances, retreats.  Cambridge University Press.

  33. Valone, T. J., and D. A. Kelt.  1999.  Effects of fire and grazing on a recently established Chihuahuan Desert plant community.  Journal of Arid Environments 42:15-28.  (pdf file)

  34. Kelt, D. A.  1999.  California kangaroo rat / Dipodomys californicus.  Pp. 523-524, in The Smithsonian Book of North American Mammals (D. E. Wilson and S. Ruff, eds.).  Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D. C., 750 pp.

  35. Kelt, D. A.  1999.  Heermann’s kangaroo rat / Dipodomys heermanni.  Pp. 529-531, in The Smithsonian Book of North American Mammals (D. E. Wilson and S. Ruff, eds.).  Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D. C., 750 pp.

  36. Shepherd, U. L., and D. A. Kelt.  1999.  Mammalian species richness and morphological complexity along an elevational gradient in the arid southwest.   Journal of Biogeography 26:843-855. (pdf file)

  37. Kelt, D. A., J. H. Brown, K. Rogovin, and G. Shenbrot.  1999.  Patterns in the structure of Asian and North American desert small mammal communities.  Journal of Biogeography 26:825-842. (pdf file)

  38. Poopatanapong, A., and D. A. Kelt.  1999.  Management of small mammals in a relict grassland in California’s Central Valley.  1999 Transactions of the Western Section of The Wildlife Society 35:15-21.

  39. Kelt, D. A.  2000.  Small mammal communities in rainforest fragments in central southern Chile.  Biological Conservation 92:345-358. (pdf file)

  40. Kelt, D. A., and J. H. Brown.  2000.  Species as units of analysis in ecology and biogeography: are the blind leading the blind?  Global Ecology and Biogeography 9:213-217. (pdf file)

  41. Kelt, D. A., P. A. Marquet, and J. H. Brown.  2000. Geographical ecology of South American desert small mammals: consequences of observations at local and regional scales.  Global Ecology and Biogeography 9:219-233. (pdf file)

  42. Hall, L. S., M. A. Kasparian, D. Van Vuren, and D. A. Kelt.  2000.  Spatial organization, habitat use, and diet of feral cats along Putah Creek, California.  Mammalia 64:19-28.

  43. Curtin, C. G., D. A. Kelt, T. C. Frey, and J. H. Brown.  2000.  On the relative importance of biotic and abiotic interactions in structuring Southwestern communities and landscapes.  Ecology Letters 3:309-317. (pdf file)

  44. Brown, J. H., B. J. Fox, and D. A. Kelt.  2000. Assembly rules: desert rodent communities are structured at scales from local to continental.  American Naturalist 156:314-321. (pdf file)

  45. Bakker, V. J., and D. A. Kelt.  2000.  Scale-dependent patterns in body size distributions of Neotropical mammals.  Ecology 81:3530-3547. (pdf file)

  46. Smith, M. F., D. A. Kelt, and J. L. Patton.  2001.  Testing models of diversification in mice in the Abrothrix olivaceus/xanthorhinus complex in Chile and Argentina.  Molecular Ecology 10:397-405. (pdf file)

  47. Kelt, D. A., and D. H. Van Vuren.  2001.  The ecology and macroecology of mammalian home range area.  American Naturalist 157:637-645. (pdf file)

  48. Kelt, D. A.  2001.  Differential effects of habitat fragmentation on birds and mammals in Valdivian temperate rainforests.  Revista Chilena de Historia Natural 74:769-777. (online at <http://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0716-078X2001000400005&lng=es&nrm=iso>)

  49. Kelt, D. A., M. L. Forister, and L. K. Nabors.  2002.  Preliminary evidence for size-specific differences in tail loss and predator vigilance in Liolaemus nigromaculatusJournal of Herpetology 36:322-325.

  50. Brown, J. H., D. A. Kelt, and B. J. Fox.  2002.  Assembly rules and competition in desert rodents.  American Naturalist 160:815-818. (pdf file)

  51. Meserve, P. L., D. A. Kelt, W. B. Milstead, and J. R. Gutiérrez.  2003.  Thirteen years of shifting top-down and bottom-up control.  BioScience 53:633-646. (pdf file)

  52. Kelt, D. A., P. L. Meserve, M. L. Forister, L. K. Nabors, and J. R. Gutiérrez.  2004.  Seed predation by birds and small mammals in semiarid Chile.  Oikos 104:133-141. (pdf file)

  53. Kelt, D. A., P. L. Meserve, L. K. Nabors, M. L. Forister, and J. R. Gutiérrez.  2004.  Foraging ecology of small mammals in semiarid Chile; the complex interplay of biotic and abiotic effects.  Ecology 85:383-397.  (pdf file)

  54. Brock, R. E., and D. A. Kelt.  2004. Conservation and social structure implications of burrow use behavior by the endangered Stephens’ kangaroo rat.  Journal of Mammalogy 85:51-57. (pdf file)

  55. Brock, R. E., and D. A. Kelt.  2004. Keystone effects of the endangered Stephens’ kangaroo rat (Dipodomys stephensi).  Biological Conservation 116:131-139.  (pdf file)

  56. Brock, R. E., and D. A. Kelt.  2004. Influence of roads on the endangered Stephens’ kangaroo rat (Dipodomys stephensi): are dirt and gravel roads different?  Biological Conservation 118:633-640. (pdf file)

  57. Kelt, D. A., P. L. Meserve, and J. R. Gutierrez.  2004.  Seed removal by small mammals, birds, and ants in semiarid Chile: patterns and comparisons with other systems.  Journal of Biogeography 31:931-942. (pdf file)

  58. Tognelli, M. F., and D. A. Kelt.   2004.  Analysis of determinants of mammalian species richness in South America using spatial autoregressive models. Ecography 27:427-436. (pdf file)

  59. Gutierrez, J. R., P. L. Meserve, and D. A. Kelt.  2004. Estructura y dinámica de la vegetación del ecosistema semiárido del Parque Nacional Bosque de Fray Jorge entre 1989 y 2002.  In: Squeo, F. A., J. R. Gutiérrez, and I. R. Hernandez (eds.). “Historia natural del Parque Nacional Fray Jorge, Región de Coquimbo, Chile.”  Ediciones Universidad de La Serena, La Serena, Chile.

  60. Meserve, P. L., D. A. Kelt, W. B. Milstead, and J. R. Gutiérrez.  2004. Una investigación de largo plazo sobre interacciones de factores bióticos y abióticos del ecosistema semiárido del Parque Nacional Bosque Fray Jorge.  In: Squeo, F. A., J. R. Gutiérrez, and I. R. Hernandez (eds.). “Historia natural del Parque nacional Fray Jorge, Región de Coquimbo, Chile.”  Ediciones Universidad de La Serena, La Serena, Chile.  

In Press 

  1. Tognelli, M. F., and D. A. Kelt.  Assessing conservation priorities of South American terrestrial mammals.  In: Schipper, J. (ed.). "Terrestrial ecoregions of Latin America and the Caribbean: a conservation assessment.  Island Press.

  2. Kelt, D. A., E. S. Konno, and J. A. Wilson.  Habitat management for the endangered Stephens’ kangaroo rat: the effect of mowing and grazing.  Journal of Wildlife Management.

  3. Kelt, D. A., J. A. Wilson, and E. S. Konno.  Differential response of two kangaroo rat species (Dipodomys) to the 1997/98 El Niño Southern Oscillation event.  Journal of Mammalogy.

Reviews

  1. Kelt, D. A.  1994.  [Review of] Ricklefs, R. E., and D. Schluter.  1993.  Species diversity: historical and geographic perspectives.  Univ. Chicago Press.  Journal of Mammalogy 75:1085-1090.

  2. Kelt, D. A.  1997.  [Review of] Atmar, W., and B. D. Patterson.  1995.  The nestedness temperature calculator: a visual BASIC program, including 294 presence-absence matrices. Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America 78:63-65.

  3. Kelt, D. A., and M. F. Tognelli.  1999. [Review of] Harris, G.  1998.  A guide to the birds and mammals of coastal Patagonia.  Princeton Univ. Press.  Journal of Mammalogy 80:1375-1378.

  4. Kelt, D. A.,  M. Johnson, D. Van Vuren, P. Stapp, V. Bakker, M. Disney, C. Floyd, M. B. McEachern, and J. E. Pagel.  1999.  [Review of] Morrison, M. L., B. G. Marcot, and R. W. Mannan.  1998.  Wildlife-Habitat Relationships: Concepts and Applications.  Second edition.  University of Wisconsin Press, Madison, Wisconsin.  Journal of Mammalogy 80:1382-1385.

  5. Kelt, D. A.  2000.   [Review of] Shenbrot, G. I., B. R. Krasnov, and K. A. Rogovin.  1999.  Spatial ecology of desert rodent communities.  Journal of Mammalogy 81:1177-1179.

  6. Kelt, D. A.  2003.  [Review of] Oldfield, S.  2003.  Rainforest.  Journal of Mammalogy 84:1475.

  7. Kelt, D. A.  2004.  [Review of] Long, J. L.  2003.  Introduced mammals of the world: their history, distribution and abundance.  Journal of Mammalogy 85:363.

 

 

 

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