What have we learned about water developments for wildlife? Not enough!

California Fish and Game

Volumn 97, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 190-209

  SimMpson, Nova O ^a,b   StewWart, Kelley M ^a,b   Bleich, Vernon C ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

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

Author keywords

Competition; Disease transmission; Forage; Habitat improvements; Predators; Ungulates; Water availability; Water developments; Water quality

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; UNGULATA;

EID: 84860134084     PISSN: 00081078     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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