Sustaining the Steppes: A Geographical History of Pastoral Land Use in MongoliaFootnote^*

* This research was supported by grants from the International Research and Exchanges Board, the National Geographic Society, the University of California, and a National Science Foundation graduate fellowship. B. Bat‐buyan of the Mongolian Academy of Science's Institute for Geoecology and the Center for Nomadic Pastoralism Studies provided valuable research assistance. I am grateful to Jeremy Swift and three anonymous reviewers for their helpful comments.

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