Year-round water management for desert bighorn sheep corresponds with visits by predators not bighorn sheep
Fig 2
Polar plots describing the timing of species visits.
Plots report the mean proportion of visits to water catchments per month for 4 species across 3 deserts (data pooled across sites and years within a desert). For all plots, red indicates the 4–5 contiguous months receiving the most visits for desert bighorn sheep (January-December (shown as 1–12)). Black indicates the months receiving the least amount of visits to water catchments by bighorn sheep. Bighorn concentrate visits to a 4–5 month period, while both carnivores and mule deer visit water catchments generally year-round. Species silhouettes from [https://www.needpix.com/] under a Creative Commons Zero License for Public Domain.