Small mammals in tall-grass prairie: Patterns associated with grazing and burning
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Publication Year
1969
Body
Clark et al. concluded that a mixture of burning and grazing can be beneficial, but also damaging to small rodent species. Burning decreases ground litter which can favor open spaces for certain mice species, but inhibits species such as voles who use that litter for cover. Ungrazed and unburned patches have just the opposite effects as a burned patch; favoring the voles and shrews and decreasing mouse habitat potential.
Language
en
Collection
Range Science Information System
Keywords
cover
ground liter
habitat
Konza Prairie
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