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Factors Affecting Black-footed Ferret Populations within the Great Plains Region of North America: A Case Study

Creator:

Hodges, Rodney J.

Abstract:

The black-footed ferret is a meso-predator within the Great Plains region of North America. Before the 1900s, black-footed ferret populations were self-sustaining in large ecological patches throughout the geographical range of the Great Plains. During the 1900s, various factors such as the systematic extermination of prairie dogs (the primary food...

Resource Type:

Capstone Project

Full Text:

(E) mouth (George et al., 2021). 13 bacterial disease originated in prairie dogs but