Research observation: Desert bighorn sheep diets in northwestern Sonora, Mexico

Journal of Range Management

Volumn 55, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 530-534

  Tarango, Luis A ^a,b,c   Krausman, Paul R ^a,b,c   Valdez, Raul ^a,b,c   Kattnig, Robert M ^a,b,c  

^a Campus SLP Colegio de Postgraduados ^*  (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^c NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ovis canadensis mexicana; Sexual segregation

Indexed keywords

DIET; FECAL PELLET; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SHEEP;

MEXICO; SONORA STATE;

AGAVE; AGAVE DESERTI; BURSERA; BURSERA MICROPHYLLA; BURSERACEAE; CERCIDIUM; CERCIDIUM MICROPHYLLUM; ELEPHANT; ERIOGONUM; KRAMERIA; KRAMERIA ERECTA; KRAMERIA PARVIFOLIA; OLNEYA TESOTA; OPUNTIA; OPUNTIA ENGELMANNII; OVIS ARIES; OVIS CANADENSIS; OVIS CANADENSIS MEXICANA; PARKINSONIA MICROPHYLLA; POACEAE; PYRUS COMMUNIS; SPHAERALCEA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0036855488     PISSN: 0022409X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/4003995     Document Type: Article

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