Bison performance and productivity on tallgrass prairie

Southwestern Naturalist

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 361-366

  Towne, E Gene ^a  

^a KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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BOS BISON;

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