Lagomorphs and the dispersal of seeds into communities dominated by exotic annual weeds

Great Basin Naturalist

Volumn 57, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 253-258

  Schupp, Eugene W ^a   Heaton, Hoyt J ^a,b   Gómez, José M ^a,c  

^a UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Bromus tectorum; Degraded rangeland; Juniperus osteosperma; Lagomorphs; Range restoration; Seed dispersal

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030787034     PISSN: 00173614     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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