Shrub densities in relation to fire, livestock grazing, and precipitation in an Arizona desert grassland

Southwestern Naturalist

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 188-193

  Bock, Carl E ^a   Bock, Jane H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

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