Demography of mountain sheep in the East Chocolate Mountains, California

California Fish and Game

Volumn 83, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 68-77

  Andrew, Nancy G ^a,b   Bleich, Vernon C ^b   August, Peter V ^a   Torres, Steven G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF FISH AND GAME   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEMOGRAPHY; HELICOPTER SURVEY; MARK-RECAPTURE; MOUNTAIN SHEEP;

USA, CALIFORNIA;

OVIS CANADENSIS NELSONI;

EID: 0031392305     PISSN: 00081078     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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