Birds associated with black-tailed prairie dog colonies in southern shortgrass prairie

Southwestern Naturalist

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 484-489

  Barko, Valerie A ^a,c   Shaw, James H ^a   Leslie Jr , David M ^b  

^a OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^c SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIRD; POPULATION STRUCTURE; PRAIRIE; SPECIES RICHNESS; UNITED STATES;

CYNOMYS LUDOVICIANUS;

EID: 0033389564     PISSN: 00384909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3672347     Document Type: Article

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