Sexual segregation in mountain sheep: Resources or predation?

Wildlife Monographs

Volumn , Issue 134, 1997, Pages 1-50

  Bleich, Vernon C ^a,c   Bowyer, R Terry ^a   Wehausen, John D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

^b Visit Scho Dept Integrat Biol   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF FISH AND GAME   (United States)

Author keywords

Behavior; California; Forage; Habitat use; Mojave desert; Mountain sheep; Ovis canadensis; Predation; Sexual segregation

Indexed keywords

OVIS ARIES; OVIS CANADENSIS; OVIS CANADENSIS NELSONI; UNGULATA;

EID: 0039460111     PISSN: 00840173     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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