Ecological determinants of species loss in remnant prairies

Science

Volumn 273, Issue 5281, 1996, Pages 1555-1558

  Leach, Mark K ^a   Givnish, Thomas J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ECOLOGY; NITROGEN FIXATION; PLANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION;

EID: 0029764640     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.273.5281.1555     Document Type: Article

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48. This research was supported in part by NSF grant DEB-9107379 to T.J.G., and by a grant from the Friends of the University of Wisconsin Arboretum to T.J.G. and M.K.L. Fieldwork by M.K.L. was supported, in part, by a Hatch grant to J. Harrington. We thank R. May, D. Tilman, and D. Waller for their comments on an early draft.