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Peninsular Desert Bighorn Sheep Literature
Ram with ewe
Two males lambs (6 and 7 months old) in the desert
Key: P - Peer Reviewed Publication, D - Dissertation, T - Thesis, R - Reports
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Recovery Plan Documents
- R - Five-Year Progress Report on Recovery (USFWS 2011)
- R - Critical Habitat Designation (USFWS 2009)
- R - Recovery Plan(21 Mb) (USFWS 2000)
Research Publications to Support Recovery
- P - Puma Predation on Radiocollared and Uncollared Bighorn Sheep (Clemenza 2009)
- P - Assessment of Predictive Habitat Models for Bighorn Sheep (Rubin 2009)
- P - Status of Bighorn Sheep in California (Epps 2005)
- P - Flawed model has serious conservation implications: Response to Turner et al. (Osterman 2005)
- P - Determination of Critical Habitat for the Endangered Nelson's Bighorn Sheep (Turner 2005)
- P - Modeling Demographic Processes in an Endangered Population of Bighorn Sheep (Rubin 2002)
- P - Fecal DNA Analysis And Risk Assessment of Mountain Lion Predation of Bighorn Sheep (Ernest 2002)
- P - Bighorn Sheep Habitat Use and Selection Near an Urban Environment (Rubin 2002)
- P - Captive Breeding and Reintroduction Evaluation Criteria (Osterman 2001)
- P - Reproductive Strategies of Desert Sheep (Rubin 2000)
- P - Mountain Lion Predation of Bighorn Sheep in the Peninsular Ranges (Hayes 2000)
- P - Genetic Variation and Population Structure: Implications for Conservation (Espeleta 2000)
- P - Distribution and Abundance of Bighorn Sheep in the Peninsular Ranges, California (Rubin 1998)
- P - Peninsular Bighorn Sheep in the San Jacinto Mountains (DeForge 1998)
- P - Population dyanmics of Peninsular bighorn sheep in the Santa Rosa Mountains, California, 1983-1994 (DeForge 1995)
- P - Morphometric Analysis of Peninsular Bighorn (Ramey 1993)