Home range of desert mule deer: Testing the body-size and habitat-productivity hypotheses

Journal of Wildlife Management

Volumn 64, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 146-153

  Relyea, Rick A ^a,b   Lawrence, Richard K ^a,c   Demarais, Stephen ^a  

^a TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^c ESRI   (United States)

Author keywords

Body size hypothesis; Home range; Mule deer; Odocoileus hemionus; Productivity; Texas

Indexed keywords

BODY SIZE; HOME RANGE; PRODUCTIVITY; UNGULATE;

TEXAS; UNITED STATES;

ODOCOILEUS HEMIONUS;

EID: 0033956047     PISSN: 0022541X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3802984     Document Type: Article

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