Studies on bio-diversity of small mammals along different habitat gradients in the Xiao Xing''an Ling Forest Region, China
小兴安岭林区不同生境梯度中小型哺乳动物生物多样性

Small mammals are of crucial importance to boreal forest ecosystem because they constitute staple food for many mammalian and avian predators and they consume plants, lichens, fungi and invertebrates. In addition, they also help plants to disperse their seeds. However, small mammals have also been shown to be more susceptible to local extinction in fragmentated habitats. The composition of small mammals in many vegetation types in Northeast Forest Regions of China is incompletely known. We also do not know...