The tempo and mode of gopher mound production in a tallgrass prairie remnant

Ecography

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 246-256

  Klaas, Benjamin A ^a,b   Moloney, Kirk A ^a   Danielson, Brent J ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BURROWING; DISTURBANCE; PRAIRIE; RODENT; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

ANDERSON PRAIRIE; IOWA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0034063645     PISSN: 09067590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0587.2000.tb00280.x     Document Type: Article

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