Plant responses to pocket-gopher disturbances across pastures and topography

Journal of Range Management

Volumn 52, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 637-645

  Carlson, Joanne M ^a   Crist, Thomas O ^a  

^a MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bouteloua gracilis; Cattle grazing; Disturbance area; Plant community; Shortgrass steppe; Thomomys talpoides

Indexed keywords

BURROWING; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; DISTURBANCE; PASTURE; RODENT; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECT; VEGETATION COVER;

ANIMALIA; BOS TAURUS; BOUTELOUA GRACILIS; GEOMYIDAE; RODENTIA; THOMOMYS TALPOIDES;

EID: 0032745651     PISSN: 0022409X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/4003635     Document Type: Article

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