Are livestock weight gains affected by black-tailed prairie dogs?

Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment

Volumn 4, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 459-464

  Derner, Justin D ^a   Detling, James K ^b   Antolin, Michael F ^b  

^a USDA ARS High Plains Grasslands Research Station   (United States)

^b Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BODY MASS; COLONIZATION; DATA SET; GRASS; LIVESTOCK; RANGELAND; RODENT;

CANIS FAMILIARIS; CYNOMYS; CYNOMYS LUDOVICIANUS;

EID: 33750799817     PISSN: 15409295     EISSN: 15409309     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/1540-9295(2006)4[459:ALWGAB]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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