The prairie dog story: Do we have it right?

BioScience

Volumn 54, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 689-695

  Vermeire, Lance T ^a   Heitschmidt, Rod K ^a   Johnson, Patricia S ^b   Sowell, Bok F ^c  

^a AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^b SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Carrying capacity; Cynomys; Distribution; Herbivory; Population estimates

Indexed keywords

CANIS FAMILIARIS; CYNOMYS; CYNOMYS LUDOVICIANUS; UNGULATA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 3242673659     PISSN: 00063568     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1641/0006-3568(2004)054[0689:TPDSDW]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Review

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