Fire Ants, cattle grazing, and the endangered Florida Grasshopper Sparrow

Southeastern Naturalist

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 237-250

  Tucker Jr , James W ^a   Schrott, Gregory R ^a   Bowman, Reed ^a  

^a ARCHBOLD BIOLOGICAL STATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMMODRAMUS SAVANNARUM FLORIDANUS; BOS; SOLENOPSIS GEMINATA; SOLENOPSIS INVICTA;

EID: 77954421852     PISSN: 15287092     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1656/058.009.0203     Document Type: Article

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