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Extreme precipitation variability, forage quality and large herbivore diet selection in arid environments Nutritional ecology forms the interface between environmental variability and large herbivore behaviour, life history characteristics, and population dynamics. Forage conditions in arid and semi-arid regions are driven by unpredictable spatial and temporal patterns in rainfall. Diet selection by herbivores should be directed towards overcoming the most pressing nutritional limitation (i.e. energy, protein [nitrogen, N], moisture) within the constraints imposed by temporal and spatial variability in forage conditions. We investigated the influence of precipitation-induced shifts in forage nutritional quality and subsequent large herbivore responses across widely varying precipitation conditions in an arid environment.... Categories: Data; Types: Citation; Tags: Cabeza Prieta National Wildlife Refuge, Drought, Drought, Fire and Extreme Weather, Land Use Change, Large herbivore foraging ecology, All tags... Mammals, National CASC, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Wildlife Biology, Wildlife and Plants, biota, foraging ecology, herbivore, ovis canadensis mexicana, primary production, ruminant, Fewer tags