Demography of desert mule deer in southeastern California

California Fish and Game

Volumn 92, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 55-66

  Marshal, Jason P ^a   Lesicka, Leon M ^b   Bleich, Vernon C ^c   Krausman, Paul R ^a   Mulcahy, Gerald P ^c   Andrew, Nancy G ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b Desert Wildlife Unlimited   (United States)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; DEER; DEMOGRAPHY; DESERT;

CALIFORNIA; NORTH AMERICA; SONORAN DESERT; UNITED STATES;

CERVIDAE; ODOCOILEUS HEMIONUS;

EID: 33744776940     PISSN: 00081078     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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