Many declining populations of the imperiled Allegheny woodrat (Neotoma magister) function as nonequilibrium metapopulations in which rates of subpopulation extirpation exceed recolonization.

Neotoma magister (Allegheny Woodrat) is a medium-sized rodent associated with rock outcrops, talus slopes, caves, cliffs, and boulder fields in the central and southern Appalachians and Allegheny ...

Frederick County is home to small colonies of the Allegheny woodrat (Neotoma magister), a Maryland endangered species. The woodrat looks like a large white-footed mouse, with large prominent ears, and ...

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On December 23, 1923, the originator of this column, Edward Sinclair Thomas, wrote a piece titled “A Rare Mammal.” In it, he gushed about the discovery of an Allegheny woodrat (Neotoma magister) the ...