A reevaluation of the role of prairie dogs in Great Plains grasslands

Conservation Biology

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 1253-1259

  Stapp, Paul ^a,b  

^a Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGY; KEYSTONE SPECIES; RODENT;

NORTH AMERICA;

CYNOMYS LUDOVICIANUS;

EID: 0032431191     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-1739.1998.97469.x     Document Type: Review

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