Modelling nutritional carrying capacity for translocated desert bighorn sheep in Western Texas

Restoration Ecology

Volumn 8, Issue 4 SUPPL, 2000, Pages 57-65

  Deyoung, Randall W ^a,c   Hellgren, Eric C ^a,b   Fulbright, Tim E ^a   Robbins, W Frank ^a   Humphreys, Ira D ^a   Krausman, P R ^a,b  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY KINGSVILLE   (United States)

^b OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c TEXAS PARKS AND WILDLIFE DEPARTMENT   (United States)

Author keywords

Bighorn sheep; Carrying capacity; Desert; Forage quality; Habitat; Nutrition; Ovis canadensis

Indexed keywords

CARRYING CAPACITY; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; FOOD QUALITY; NUTRITION; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; UNGULATE;

TEXAS; UNITED STATES;

OVIS CANADENSIS;

EID: 0034479773     PISSN: 10612971     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1526-100x.2000.80066.x     Document Type: Article

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