The keystone role of bison in North American tallgrass prairie

BioScience

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 39-50

  Knapp, Alan K ^a   Blair, John M ^a   Briggs, John M ^a   Collins, Scott L ^a,b,c   Hartnett, David C ^a   Johnson, Loretta C ^a   Towne, E Gene ^a  

^a KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^c NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; BISON; BUBALUS;

EID: 0032927181     PISSN: 00063568     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1313492     Document Type: Article

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