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Habitat Patch Dynamics Of Desert Bighorn Sheep Ovis Canadensis Nelsoni In The Eastern Mojave Desert, Darren Del Divine

UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations

The individual chapters of this Dissertation were designed to examine desert bighorn habitat, and the disjunct nature of that habitat. The findings of the first chapter illustrated that although 30 m elevation data yielded a more accurate depiction of the landscape, 100 m data was still adequate for determining habitat quality. The second chapter illustrated that the traditional bighorn habitat model was inadequate when applied to four Eastern Mojave Desert mountain ranges because of its unrealistic distance to permanent water requirement. It was also determined that a single habitat definition could not be formulated that worked equally well on all …