Location: Oklahoma Panhandle, USA. Methods: We surveyed mammal, reptile and amphibian communities on 36 black-tailed prairie dog (Cynomys ludovicianus) towns during the summers and falls of 1997 to 1999. We used a Geographic Information System (GIS) to characterize the landscape within 10 km of...
Aim: To evaluate the utility of island biogeography theory as a model for understanding and conserving native communities of nonvolant terrestrial vertebrates at prairie dog towns. Location: Oklahoma Panhandle, USA. Methods: We surveyed mammal, reptile and amphibian communities on 36 black-tailed prair...
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Bartlesville, Oklahoma Bartlesville, the county seat of Washington County, Okla., was the original headquarters of Phillips Petroleum before its merger with Conoco Inc. Perhaps its most notable landmark is Price Tower, the only Frank Lloyd Wright-designed sky...
This place on the plains may have died from its own identity crisis. Thefarming townwas born in about 1901, sitting near both Route 66 and the 100th Meridian. But surveyors kept not being able to decide if the town belonged in the Texas panhandle or Oklahoma. (It also had, at times,...
We studied the persistence of 281 towns of the black-tailed prairie dog (Cynomys ludovicianus) from surveys conducted in Oklahoma in 1966 and 1967 and again in 1988 and 1989. Town size during initial surveys tended to increase along a northwesterly gradient toward the panhandle of the State,...
We compared species richness and species composition of non-volant mammals, reptiles and amphibians at 36 prairie dog towns and 36 paired sites in the Panhandle Region of Oklahoma during the summers and falls of 1997, 1998 and 1999. We detected 30 species of mammals, 18 species of reptiles ...