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: | Lourdes Martínez-Estévez, Patricia Balvanera, Jesús Pacheco, Gerardo Ceballos |
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Lenguaje: | EN |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2013
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Acceso en línea: | https://doaj.org/article/0410339024a1464cb6eec637aa04f534 |
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