@mastersthesis {51693,
	title = {Botanical content of blacktailed jackrabbit diets on semi-desert rangeland},
	year = {1989},
	note = {//NMSU//LTER II//},
	month = {1989},
	pages = {84},
	school = {New Mexico State University},
	type = {M.S. Thesispp},
	address = {Las Cruces, New Mexico},
	abstract = {Botanical content of the blacktailed jackrabbit (<i>Lepus californicus</i>) diets and relative preference indices for various plant species were evaluated.   The study was conducted in southern New Mexico in June, August and October, on six vegetation types: mesquite-grass type, black grama type, snakeweed type, mixed-shrub grass type, creosotebush type and tarbush type.  Diets were quantified using microhistological examination of fecal samples.     Results from this study suggested that there is a significant (P<.01) difference for most of the important plant species in the diet for vegetational type, period and the vegetational type x period interaction.  Grasses were preferred nearly in proportion to their availability.  All forbs, except for broom snakeweed, were preferred.  Tarbush and creosotebush were not preferred.},
	keywords = {diet,lagomorph, dissertation, dissertations, lagomorpha, diet, Lepus,diet, rabbit,SEE <LAGOMORPH>, theses, thesis},
	author = {Wansi, Tchouassi}
}
