Effects of conservation reserve program seeding regime on harvester ants (Pogonomyrmex), with implications for the threatened Texas horned lizard (Phrynosoma cornutum)

Southwestern Naturalist

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 274-277

  McIntyre, Nancy E ^a  

^a TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOTHRIOCHLOA; BOTHRIOCHLOA ISCHAEMUM; BUCHLOE; BUCHLOE DACTYLOIDES; ERAGROSTIS; ERAGROSTIS CURVULA; FORMICIDAE; ISCHAEMUM; PHRYNOSOMA; PHRYNOSOMA CORNUTUM; POACEAE; POGONOMYRMEX; SQUAMATA;

EID: 0037966194     PISSN: 00384909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1894/0038-4909(2003)048<0274:EOCRPS>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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