Author: William A. MoseleyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Rodents
Languages : en
Pages : 78
Book Description
Effects of Supplemental Feeding and Density of White-tailed Deer on the Spatial Distribution of Small Mammals
Author: William A. MoseleyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Rodents
Languages : en
Pages : 78
Book Description
Advanced White-Tailed Deer Management
Author: Timothy Edward FulbrightPublisher: Texas A&M University Press
ISBN: 1648430570
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
In 2003, a cadre of researchers set out to determine what combination of supplemental or natural nutrition and white-tailed deer population density would produce the largest antlers on bucks without harming vegetation. They would come to call this combination “the sweet spot.” Over the course of their 15-year experiment, conducted through the Caesar Kleberg Wildlife Research Institute at Texas A&M University–Kingsville, Timothy E. Fulbright, Charles A. DeYoung, David G. Hewitt, Don A. Draeger, and 25 graduate students tracked the effects of deer density and enhanced versus natural nutrition on vegetation conditions. Through wet years and dry, in a semiarid environment with frequent droughts, they observed deer nutrition and food habits and analyzed population dynamics. Containing the results of this landmark, longitudinal study, in keeping with the Kleberg Institute’s mission, this volume provides science-based information for enhancing the conservation and management of Texas wildlife. Advanced White-Tailed Deer Management: The Nutrition–Population Density Sweet Spot presents this critical research for the first time as a reference for hunters, landowners, wildlife managers, and all those who work closely with white-tailed deer populations. It explains the findings of the Comanche-Faith Project and the implications of these findings for white-tailed deer ecology and management throughout the range of the species with the goal of improving management.
Effects of Supplemental Feeding and Deer Density on White-tailed Deer Diet Selection and Antler Growth
Author: Kent M. WilliamsonHome-range Fidelity and the Effect of Supplemental Feeding on Contact Rates Between White-tailed Deer (Odocoileus Virginianus) in Southern Illinois
Author: Matthew RustandPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
White-tailed deer (Odocoileous virginianus ) are an important game animal and provide intrinsic value to many people. However, disease has become of great concern within white-tailed deer populations. Frequency of contract drives the establishment and spread of infectious diseases among susceptible hosts. Supplemental feed provided to increase white-tailed deer survival or create hunting opportunities, as well as bait stations to aid in capture of deer, may increase contact opportunities and disease transfer. The author's objective was to quantify the effects of bait sites on indirect contact between deer. The author examined data from global positioning system (GPS) collars placed on 27 deer near Carbondale, Illinois, USA, from 2002 to 2005. Location data from GPS collars were used to ensure that the author quantified contacts between deer in separate social groups, based on the volume of intersection of their spatial utilization distributions and correlation of movements. Understanding the spatial distribution of white-tailed deer is important to implement effective disease and population management within localized areas. The objective of this study was to measure the home-range fidelity of female deer in an exurban deer herd in southern Illinois.
The Effects of Supplemental Feeding on White-tailed Deer in Northwestern Wisconsin
Author: Timothy L. LewisEffects of Three White-tailed Deer Densities and Supplemental Feeding on Vegetation in the Western Rio Grande Plains of Texas
Author: Eric D. GrahmannPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : White-tailed deer
Languages : en
Pages : 564
Book Description
White-tailed Deer and Small Mammal Population Dynamics Over Time
Author: Ilianna Eden AnisePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Animal ecology
Languages : en
Pages : 95
Book Description
My research contributed to a long-term study of small mammal and white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) population dynamics over time in Morris County, specifically at Drew University and the Great Swamp Watershed Association. I used live trapping to gather data on small mammal populations and a fecal pellet index (FPI) and visual census to assess the white-tailed deer population. Overall, I was interested in how the population dynamics change over time, independently and interacting with each other. I also started weighing small mammals in an attempt to use weight to clarify small mammal age class. I found that changes occurred in four target mammal species (raccoon, Peromyscus spp., eastern chipmunk, and eastern gray squirrel) over time. Specifically, I noticed an increase in raccoon, squirrel, and Peromyscus spp. numbers but a decrease in chipmunk population from 2015-2016. The decrease in chipmunks is a result of older individuals not surviving whereas squirrel numbers increased due to their younger reproducing population. Similarly, the raccoon population had the highest number captured in 2016 compared to previous years, most likely caused by increased reproduction and a greater number of juveniles. In analyzing relationships between small mammal populations, my study documented a strong relationship between the squirrel and chipmunk populations. I found that over time, chipmunks and squirrels displayed a strong negative relationship in a lagged Pearson correlation and in 2016, I determined that either squirrel or chipmunk activity dominates the trapping grids at Drew University. Moreover, I found that squirrel activity was significantly higher at the Hepburn Woods site than at the President's House or the Zuck Arboretum sites, when comparing squirrel activity among Drew sites. My research displayed some interesting findings regarding small mammal weight measurements. On average, Drew University chipmunks and squirrels weighed more than their respective captures at the Great Swamp Watershed Association's sites. I was able to use weight as an indicator of determined age class in chipmunks and squirrels. I found no significant difference in adult weight based on sex. In looking at the impact of deer exclosures on small mammal activity, I found no significant impact from the deer exclosure on small mammal activity. My study of the white-tailed deer population at Drew University using the fecal pellet index and visual census indicated interesting shifts in the population over time. Of note, there was a marked decline in the population due to epizootic hemorrhagic disease in 2011. However, the population completely recovered in 3-4 years in 2015. By 2016, the population exhibited a crash, most likely due to an overshoot in carrying capacity. The visual census provided a conservative assessment of the age and sex distribution of the deer population. The visual census also indicated that the Drew University population exceeded carrying capacity in 2015, according to Tilghman (1989). The present findings of this thesis display the importance of long-term research with small mammal and white-tailed deer populations. Future research will continue to be essential in documenting how small mammal and white-tailed deer population dynamics change overtime.
White-tailed Deer Habitat
Author: Timothy E. FulbrightPublisher: Texas A&M University Press
ISBN: 9781603445658
Category : Range management
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
For most of the last century, range management meant managing land for livestock. How well a landowner grew the grass that cattle ate was the best measure of success. In this century, landowners look to hunting and wildlife viewing for income; rangeland is now also wildlife habitat, and they are managing their land not just for cattle but also for wildlife, most notably deer and quail. Unlike other books on white-tailed deer in places where rainfall is relatively high and the environment stable, this book takes an ecological approach to deer management in the semiarid lands of Oklahoma, Texas, and northern Mexico. These are the least productive of white-tail habitats, where periodic drought punctuates long-term weather patterns. The book's focus on this landscape across political borders is one of its original and lasting contributions. Another is its contention that good management is based on ecological principles that guide the manager's thinking about: Habitat Requirements of White-Tailed Deer White-Tailed Deer Nutrition Carrying Capacity Habitat Manipulation Predators Hunting Timothy Edward Fulbright is a Regents Professor and the Meadows Professor in Semiarid Land Ecology at the Caesar Kleberg Wildlife Research Institute, Texas A&M University-Kingsville. J. Alfonso Ortega-S., is an associate professor at the Caesar Kleberg Wildlife Research Institute, Texas A&M University-Kingsville.
Effects of Year-round Supplemental Feeding of White-tailed Deer on Plant Community Dynamics
Author: Beau NavarrePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 30
Book Description
Supplemental feeding is commonly practiced to enhance available nutrition for white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus). The effects of supplemental feeding on the surrounding vegetative community may be related to herbivory, trampling, and seed dispersal. I evaluated how these potential mechanisms affect vegetative communities using a matched-pair design (fed and ecologically equivalent unfed sites) during 2018-2020. In a short-term manipulative portion of the study, I sampled the vegetation prior to feeding and during two years of feeding. In a long-term retrospective study, I sampled feeders established 5-7 years previously. Feeders increased daily detection rate of deer and seed dispersing non-target wildlife, percentage of browsed plants, bare ground, and seed deposition. Plant communities diverged increasingly more from year 1 through years 5-7. Supplemental feeding directly affects local understory plant communities due to increased herbivory and trampling, while seed dispersal by non-target wildlife and increased bare ground may facilitate invasion of non-desirable plant species.
White-Tailed Deer Habitat
Author: Timothy Edward FulbrightPublisher: Texas A&M University Press
ISBN: 1603449515
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
The original, 2006 edition of Timothy Edward Fulbright and J. Alfonso Ortega-S.’s White-Tailed Deer Habitat: Ecology and Management on Rangelands was hailed as “a splendid reference for the classroom and those who make their living from wildlife and the land” and as “filling a niche that is not currently approached in the literature.” In this second, full-color edition, revised and expanded to include the entire western United States and northern Mexico, Fulbright and Ortega-S. provide a carefully reasoned synthesis of ecological and range management principles that incorporates rangeland vegetation management and the impact of crops, livestock, predation, and population density within the context of the arid and semiarid habitats of this broad region. As landowners look to hunting as a source of income and to the other benefits of managing for wildlife, the clear presentation of the up-to-date research gathered in this book will aid their efforts. Essential points covered in this new edition include: White-tailed deer habitat requirements Nutritional needs of White-tailed deer Carrying capacity Habitat management Hunting Focused across political borders and written with an understanding of environments where periodic drought punctuates long-term weather patterns, this revised and expanded edition of White-Tailed Deer Habitat: Ecology and Management on Rangelands will aid landowners, researchers, and naturalists in their efforts to integrate land management and use with sound ecological practices.