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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 (? = 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...
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Tags: Ovis canadensis,
Restoration Ecology,
bighorn sheep,
epizootics,
fecundity
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