Evaluating effects of an expanding mountain goat population on native bighorn sheep: A simulation model of competition and disease

Biological Conservation

Volumn 101, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 171-185

  Gross, J E ^a,b  

^a Veterinary Dentistry and Oral Surgery   (United States)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bighorn sheep; Disease; Exotic species; Invasive species; Mountain goat; Oreamnos americanus; Ovis canadensis; Simulation model

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL INVASION; DISEASE; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; UNGULATE;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0034893659     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3207(01)00062-3     Document Type: Article

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