Packrat middens and late holocene environmental change in southwestern Colorado

Southwestern Naturalist

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 209-215

  Emslie, Steven D ^a   Stiger, Mark ^a   Wambach, Ellen ^a  

^a NONE

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CONIFEROPHYTA; NEOTOMA CINEREA; PINUS CONTORTA;

EID: 21244504592     PISSN: 00384909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1894/0038-4909(2005)050[0209:PMALHE]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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