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Prairie Dog Decline Reduces the Supply of Ecosystem Services and Leads to Desertification of Semiarid Grasslands

Anthropogenic impacts on North American grasslands, a highly endangered ecosystem, have led to declines of prairie dogs, a keystone species, over 98% of their historical range. While impacts of this loss on maintenance of grassland biodiversity have been widely documented, much less is known about t...

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Autores principales: Martínez-Estévez, Lourdes, Balvanera, Patricia, Pacheco, Jesús, Ceballos, Gerardo
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3793983/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24130691
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0075229