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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Main Authors: Lourdes Martínez-Estévez, Patricia Balvanera, Jesús Pacheco, Gerardo Ceballos
Format: article
Language:EN
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013
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Online Access:https://doaj.org/article/0410339024a1464cb6eec637aa04f534
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