Prairie dog effects on plant community structure in southern mixed-grass prairie

Southwestern Naturalist

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 251-258

  Weltzin, Jake F ^b   Dowhower, Steve L ^a   Heitschmidi, Rodney K ^c  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^c USDA/ARS Ft Keogh   (United States)

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