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Eric Yensen, Dana L. Quinney, Katherine Johnson, Kristina Timmerman, Karen Steenhof, Fire, Vegetation Changes, and Population Fluctuations of Townsend's Ground Squirrels, The American Midland Naturalist, Vol. 128, No. 2 (Oct., 1992), pp. 299-312
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