Grassland soil depressions: Relict bison wallows or inherent landscape heterogeneity?

American Midland Naturalist

Volumn 142, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 382-392

  Coppedge, Bryan R ^a   Fuhlendorf, Samuel D ^a   Engle, David M ^a   Carter, Brian J ^a   Shaw, James H ^a  

^a OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GEOLOGY; SODIUM; SOIL ANALYSIS;

HETEROGENEITY; LANDFORM EVOLUTION; MAMMAL; SOIL PROPERTY; SOIL STRUCTURE; TOPOGRAPHY;

ANIMALIA; BISON; BISON BISON; BUBALUS; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0032714498     PISSN: 00030031     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1674/0003-0031(1999)142[0382:GSDRBW]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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