Sexual segregation in rocky mountain mule deer

Journal of Wildlife Management

Volumn 60, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 497-507

  Main, Martin B ^a   Coblentz, Bruce E ^a  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

aggression; body size; competition; diets; habitat selection; mule deer; Odocoileus hemionus; Oregon; resource partitioning; sexual dimorphism; sexual segregation; shrub steppe

Indexed keywords

ANTELOPE; ARTEMISIA TRIDENTATA VASEYANA; CANIDAE; CANIS LATRANS; CERVIDAE; ODOCOILEUS; ODOCOILEUS HEMIONUS HEMIONUS; PURSHIA TRIDENTATA; UNGULATA; ARTEMISIA;

DIET; HABITAT SELECTION; MULE DEER; SEXUAL SEGREGATION;

USA, OREGON, HART MOUNTAIN NATIONAL ANTELOPE REFUGE;

EID: 0029660364     PISSN: 0022541X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3802067     Document Type: Article

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