Diets of adults and lambs of desert bighorn sheep during years of varying rainfall in Central Arizona

Southwestern Naturalist

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 520-527

  McKinney, Ted ^a   Smith, Thorry W ^a  

^a ARIZONA GAME AND FISH DEPARTMENT   (United States)

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OVIS ARIES; OVIS CANADENSIS;

EID: 38049027327     PISSN: 00384909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1894/0038-4909(2007)52[520:DOAALO]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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