Use of an ecotone to test the effects of soil and desert rodents on the distribution of Indian ricegrass

Ecography

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 253-263

  Breck, Stewart W ^a   Jenkins, Stephen H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DESERT RODENT; ECOTONE; INDIAN RICEGRASS; SALINITY; SOIL TEXTURE;

USA, NEVADA;

ACHNATHERUM HYMENOIDES; HETEROMYIDAE; POACEAE;

EID: 0030618282     PISSN: 09067590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0587.1997.tb00369.x     Document Type: Article

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