Severe mortality of a population of threatened Agassiz’s desert tortoises: the American badger as a potential predator
In the Mojave Desert of the southwestern United States, adult Agassiz’s desert tortoises Gopherus agassizii typically experience high survival, but population declines associated with anthropogenic impacts led to their listing as a threatened Species under the US Endangered Species Act in 1990. Pred...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Inter-Research
2015-07-01
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Series: | Endangered Species Research |
Online Access: | https://www.int-res.com/abstracts/esr/v28/n2/p109-116/ |