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Nutritive Quality And Mineral Content Of Potential Desert Tortoise Food Plants, United States Department Of Agriculture, Forest Service Jan 1994

Nutritive Quality And Mineral Content Of Potential Desert Tortoise Food Plants, United States Department Of Agriculture, Forest Service

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Minerals and nutrients for desert tortoise food plants from the northeastern Mojave Desert are generally in the normal range for semiarid environments, except that sodium values are low for plants and soil. Annual forbs are often higher in nutritive quality than other plant classes.