Source: AgriLife Today
All animals must keep their body temperature in a thermoneutral zone in order to survive—in warm climates, animals must shed excess heat. To accomplish this, wildlife employ a variety of strategies to mitigate the direct and indirect effects of excess heat. Because many species use vegetation as refuge from heat, we provide range management strategies and techniques that help create and maintain adequate vegetative thermal cover.
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