Ecology and Conservation of Great Plains Vertebrates

Ecology and Conservation of Great Plains Vertebrates
ISBN-10
0387948023
ISBN-13
9780387948027
Category
Nature
Pages
320
Language
English
Published
1997
Publisher
Springer Science & Business Media
Authors
Fritz L. Knopf, Fred B. Samson

Description

The Great Plains prairie, historically the largest single terrestrial ecosystem in North America, is now also its most threatened. Ecology and Conservation of Great Plains Vertebrates relates changes in grassland ecosystems to the ecology of vertebrate animals inhabiting the prairie.

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