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Excerpt from Nutritive Quality and Mineral Content of Potential Desert Tortoise Food Plants This study was designed to evaluate the hypothesis that nutritive quality and mineral content of potential desert tortoise food plants differed at the three areas, possibly contributing to the apparent health differ snees. A second hypothesis was that plant mineral content would be correlated with that of associated soil. Mineral nutrition has been shown to be impor tant in desert tortoise ecophysiology (nagy and Medica Information about the nutritive quality and mineral status of the plants should be useful for those concerned with the health and management of a wide range of herbivores. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.