Evaluation of factors potentially influencing a desert bighorn sheep population

Wildlife Monographs

Volumn , Issue 164, 2006, Pages 1-36

  McKinney, Ted ^a   Smith, Thorry W ^a   DeVos Jr , James C ^a  

^a ARIZONA GAME AND FISH DEPARTMENT   (United States)

Author keywords

Arizona; Desert bighorn sheep; Disease; Mountain lions; Nutrition; Ovis canadensis; Populations; Predation; Puma concolor; Rainfall; Sonoran Desert

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; CANIDAE; CANIS LATRANS; LYNX; LYNX RUFUS; OVIS ARIES; OVIS CANADENSIS; POACEAE; PUMA CONCOLOR;

EID: 33748965156     PISSN: 00840173     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.2193/0084-0173(2006)164[1:EOFPIA]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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