Large herbivores influence the composition and diversity of shrub-steppe communities in the Rocky Mountains, USA

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  2005

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  Oecologia

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  Biology, Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1007/s00442-005-0065-9PMID 16261376
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