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SUBMITTER: Sierra-Corona R
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4356543 | biostudies-literature | 2015
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Sierra-Corona Rodrigo R Davidson Ana A Fredrickson Ed L EL Luna-Soria Hugo H Suzan-Azpiri Humberto H Ponce-Guevara Eduardo E Ceballos Gerardo G
PloS one 20150311 3
Prairie dogs (Cynomys spp.) have been eliminated from over 95% of their historic range in large part from direct eradication campaigns to reduce their purported competition with cattle for forage. Despite the longstanding importance of this issue to grassland management and conservation, the ecological interactions between cattle and prairie dogs have not been well examined. We address this issue through two complementary experiments to determine if cattle and prairie dogs form a mutualistic gra ...[more]