Control of a Desert-Grassland Transition by a Keystone Rodent Guild

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• Publication year

  1990

• Venue

  Science

• Publication date

  1990-12-21

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Environmental Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1126/science.250.4988.1705PMID 17734708
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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