Ecological and demographic effects on intraspecific variation in the social system of prairie dogs

Ecology, Sept, 1995 by Steven E. Travis, C.N. Slobodchikoff, Paul Keim

(1) Manuscript received 9 March 1994; revised 12 December 1994; accepted 14 December 1994; final version received 23 January 1995.

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