Ecological roles and conservation challenges of social, burrowing, herbivorous mammals in the world's grasslands

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• Publication year

  2012

• Venue

  Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment

• Publication date

  2012-11-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Environmental Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1890/110054
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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