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Population Growth, Fecundity, and Survivorship in Recovering Populations of Bighorn Sheep

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Elizabeth S Williams, Linda C Zeigenfuss, Francis J Singer, and Michael W Miller, Population Growth, Fecundity, and Survivorship in Recovering Populations of Bighorn Sheep: .

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The single greatest obstacle to the restoration of large, healthy, populations of bighorn sheep (Ovis canadensis) in the western United States is epizootic outbreaks of bronchopneumonia that may kill 20–100% of the animals in populations. Although the species is capable of rapid initial growth rates following restoration into new habitat (λ = 1.23–1.30 have been observed), these rates of increase are typical only a few years following the release of a population, and then most populations either decline to extirpation or remnant status (<30 animals) or remain at <100 individuals. We studied the fecundity and survivorship of three increasing, and three declining and suspected diseased, populations of bighorn sheep (the latter were [...]

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