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| | issg Database: Ecology of Ovis aries |
 | | Synonyms: Ovis aries musimon Pallas, 1762, Ovis aries ophion Blyth, 1841, Ovis musimon musimon Pallas, 1762, Ovis musimon ophion Blyth, 1841, Ovis musimon Pallas, 1762, Ovis ophion Blyth, 1841, Ovis orientalis Gmelin, 1774 |
 | | Grazing and browzing of herbaceous vegetation, and stripping of bark by feral sheep and other introduced mammals (Cattle (Bos taurus), Mouflon sheep (Ovis musimon), and feral goats (Capra hircus)) have led to exposure of soil to erosion and degradation of forests on Mauna Kea (Scowcraft and Sakai 1983). |
 | | They have been found to decrease populations of the mamane (Sophora chrysophylla), an endemic leguminous tree, by stripping the bark off thus facilitating damage from insects and and other disease causing organisms". |
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