Vol. 26 No. 1 (2016)
Artículos de Investigación

Watering sites use by bighorn sheep (Ovis canadensis cremnobates) and water quality analysis in Sierra Santa Isabel, Baja California, Mexico

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  • Jonathan Gabriel Escobar Flores,
  • Raúl Valdez,
  • Sergio Álvarez-Cárdenas,
  • Sara Díaz-Castro,
  • Aradit Castellanos-Vera,
  • Jorge Torres,
  • Mariana Delgado-Fernández
Jonathan Gabriel Escobar Flores
Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas del Noroeste
Raúl Valdez
ew Mexico State University
Bio
Sergio Álvarez-Cárdenas
Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas del Noroeste
Sara Díaz-Castro
Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas del Noroeste
Aradit Castellanos-Vera
Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas del Noroeste
Jorge Torres
Centro de Investigación Científica y de Educación Superior de Ensenada
Mariana Delgado-Fernández
Centro de Investigación Científica y de Educación Superior de Ensenada
DOI: https://doi.org/10.15174/au.2016.822

Published 2016-02-19

Keywords

  • Baja California,
  • borrego cimarrón,
  • calidad del agua,
  • cámaras trampa.
  • Baja California,
  • bighorn sheep,
  • water quality,
  • camera traps.

How to Cite

Escobar Flores, J. G., Valdez, R., Álvarez-Cárdenas, S., Díaz-Castro, S., Castellanos-Vera, A., Torres, J., & Delgado-Fernández, M. (2016). Watering sites use by bighorn sheep (Ovis canadensis cremnobates) and water quality analysis in Sierra Santa Isabel, Baja California, Mexico. Acta Universitaria, 26(1), 12–19. https://doi.org/10.15174/au.2016.822

Abstract

Water used by bighorn sheep during the 2011 and 2013 dry seasons and the rainy season and drought of 2015 in the Sierra Santa Isabel of the State of Baja California, Mexico was analyzed for seven physicochemical parameters. At four watering sites, 260 photographs of sheep were obtained. Females, yearlings, and lambs accounted for 73% of the photographs. In the rainy season at two watering sites, conductivity was 1.31 µS/cm2 and 1.92 µS/cm2 and total dissolved solids was 0.65 and 0.95 ppt, indicating low salt content and safe for bighorn sheep. The watering sites with greater use by bighorn sheep were El Zamora (n = 120) and El Cordero (n = 67), which also had the best water quality. The frequent use by females and yearlings of the two sites with optimal water quality support the belief that watering sites for lambing and recruitment of bighorn sheep is important.

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