Economic benefit of fertility control in wild horse populations

Journal of Wildlife Management

Volumn 71, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 2811-2819

  Bartholow, John ^a  

^a FORT COLLINS SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Bureau of Land Management; Contraceptive; Equus caballus; Feral horses; Modeling; Porcine zona pellucida (PZP); Reproduction; Sex ratio

Indexed keywords

CONTRACEPTIVE USE; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ECONOMIC IMPACT; ESTIMATION METHOD; FERAL ORGANISM; FERTILITY; HORSE; LAND MANAGEMENT; REMOVAL EXPERIMENT; REPRODUCTION; SEX RATIO; WILD POPULATION;

EQUIDAE; EQUUS CABALLUS; SUS;

EID: 48249153350     PISSN: 0022541X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2193/2007-064     Document Type: Article

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