High foal mortality limits growth of a desert feral horse population in Nevada

Great Basin Naturalist

Volumn 59, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 374-379

  Greger, Paul D ^a   Romney, Evan M ^b,c  

^a BECHTEL CORPORATION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Equus caballus; Feral horse; Finite rate of increase; Foal survival; Great Basin Desert; Southern Nevada

Indexed keywords

EQUUS CABALLUS;

EID: 0032744084     PISSN: 00173614     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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