Survivorship and cause-specific mortality in five populations of mule deer

Great Basin Naturalist

Volumn 58, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 265-272

  Bleich, Vernon C ^a,b   Taylor, Timothy J ^c  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

^c Box 191 ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

California; Felis concolor; Mortality; Mountain lion; Mule deer; Odocoileus hemionus; Predation; Survivorship

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031817744     PISSN: 00173614     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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