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The Prairie Dog and Biotic Diversity
Version of Record online: 19 JAN 2002
DOI: 10.1046/j.1523-1739.1994.08030677.x
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Miller, B., Ceballos, G. and Reading, R. (1994), The Prairie Dog and Biotic Diversity. Conservation Biology, 8: 677–681. doi: 10.1046/j.1523-1739.1994.08030677.x
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- Issue online: 19 JAN 2002
- Version of Record online: 19 JAN 2002
- Paper submitted March 9, 1994; revised manuscript accepted May 21, 1994.
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