High female desert tortoise mortality in the western Sonoran Desert during California’s epic 2012-2016 drought
We conducted population surveys for desert tortoises Gopherus agassizii at 2 nearby sites in the western Sonoran Desert of California, USA, from 2015-2018, during the driest ongoing 22 yr period (2000-2021) in the southwestern USA in over 1200 yr. We hypothesized that drought-induced mortality would...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Inter-Research
2023-01-01
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| Series: | Endangered Species Research |
| Online Access: | https://www.int-res.com/abstracts/esr/v50/p1-16/ |