On desert rodents, favored states, and unresolved issues: Scaling up and down regional assemblages and local communities

American Naturalist

Volumn 156, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 322-328

  Stone, Lewi ^a   Dayan, Tamar ^a   Simberloff, Daniel ^b  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

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EID: 0033849277     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/303384     Document Type: Note

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