Effect of ground squirrel burrows on plant productivity in a cool desert environment

Journal of Range Management

Volumn 51, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 638-643

  Laundré, John W ^a,b  

^a Nucl Eng Idaho State University   (United States)

^b INSTITUTO DE ECOLOGÍA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Cool desert; Ground squirrel; Idaho; Plant productivity; Sagebrush

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL PRODUCTION; BURROWING ORGANISM; DESERT; INTERSPECIFIC INTERACTION; PLANT; SOIL MOISTURE;

AGROPYRON; AGROPYRON SMITHII; ANIMALIA; ARTEMISIA; ARTEMISIA TRIDENTATA; PASCOPYRUM SMITHII; SCIURIDAE; SPERMOPHILUS; SPERMOPHILUS TOWNSENDI; SPERMOPHILUS TOWNSENDII; TRIDENTATA;

EID: 0031763057     PISSN: 0022409X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/4003605     Document Type: Article

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