Reestablishment of a rodent community in restored desert scrub

Restoration Ecology

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 156-161

  Patten, Michael A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Tierra Madre Consultants   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FORMICIDAE; MAMMALIA; RODENTIA;

DESERT SCRUB; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; RODENT COMMUNITY;

USA, CALIFORNIA, PALM SPRINGS;

EID: 0031446034     PISSN: 10612971     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1526-100X.1997.09718.x     Document Type: Article

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