Author: Anna Bess Sorin
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 458
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Reproduction, Behavior, and Social Interactions of White-tailed Deer (Odocoileus Virginianus) on the Edwin S. George Reserve
Foraging Behavior, Social Interactions, and Predation Risk of White-tailed Deer (Odocoileus Virginianus) at a Concentrated Resource
Author: David Bledsoe Stone
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 226
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Wildlife feeding is undertaken for a variety of reasons including increasing viewing opportunities, improving body condition, preventing starvation, and facilitating hunter harvest. I investigated anti-predator and foraging behavior at bait sites, the role of competition on bait site visitation, and spatio-temporal responses to baiting. During 2013 and 2014, I used global positioning system (GPS) telemetry and camera traps to assess white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) behavior at bait sites and implications for harvest susceptibility. Camera trap data indicated that foraging behavior was influenced by social interactions and breeding chronology. Co-occurrence of mature and immature males at a bait site negatively impacted feeding rates for immature males. I used a multi-state modeling approach to determine if deer temporally partitioned their use of bait sites based on dominance status and how the resulting patterns in bait site visitation would potentially expose deer to different sources of predation risk, depending on the activity patterns of the predator. I found that subordinate (yearling males and adult females) and dominant (adult males) cohorts avoided each other temporally at the patch level. Subordinates were more likely to use bait sites during diurnal hours during the pre- and post-breeding phases of the breeding season than dominants. Bait site visitation for dominants and subordinates did not differ during nocturnal hours in any phase of the breeding season. Lastly, I used dynamic Brownian bridge movement models and camera traps to assess harvest suscpetibility. I determined that hunters were less likely to encounter a deer at a bait site than non-baited areas in their home range, regardless of sex, age class, or phase of the breeding season. Although no sex-age class selected for bait sites over other portions of their home range during legal hunting hours, adult females were more susceptible to harvest at bait sites during the pre-breeding season than the breeding or post-breeding seasons. Conversely, adult and yearling males were more likely to visit a bait site during hunting hours in the post-breeding season than the pre- or breeding seasons. Social interactions, competitive status, and reproductive behaviors are important drivers of deer behavior and harvest susceptibility at bait sites.
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
Wildlife feeding is undertaken for a variety of reasons including increasing viewing opportunities, improving body condition, preventing starvation, and facilitating hunter harvest. I investigated anti-predator and foraging behavior at bait sites, the role of competition on bait site visitation, and spatio-temporal responses to baiting. During 2013 and 2014, I used global positioning system (GPS) telemetry and camera traps to assess white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) behavior at bait sites and implications for harvest susceptibility. Camera trap data indicated that foraging behavior was influenced by social interactions and breeding chronology. Co-occurrence of mature and immature males at a bait site negatively impacted feeding rates for immature males. I used a multi-state modeling approach to determine if deer temporally partitioned their use of bait sites based on dominance status and how the resulting patterns in bait site visitation would potentially expose deer to different sources of predation risk, depending on the activity patterns of the predator. I found that subordinate (yearling males and adult females) and dominant (adult males) cohorts avoided each other temporally at the patch level. Subordinates were more likely to use bait sites during diurnal hours during the pre- and post-breeding phases of the breeding season than dominants. Bait site visitation for dominants and subordinates did not differ during nocturnal hours in any phase of the breeding season. Lastly, I used dynamic Brownian bridge movement models and camera traps to assess harvest suscpetibility. I determined that hunters were less likely to encounter a deer at a bait site than non-baited areas in their home range, regardless of sex, age class, or phase of the breeding season. Although no sex-age class selected for bait sites over other portions of their home range during legal hunting hours, adult females were more susceptible to harvest at bait sites during the pre-breeding season than the breeding or post-breeding seasons. Conversely, adult and yearling males were more likely to visit a bait site during hunting hours in the post-breeding season than the pre- or breeding seasons. Social interactions, competitive status, and reproductive behaviors are important drivers of deer behavior and harvest susceptibility at bait sites.
Reproductive Biology of White-tailed Deer on Cumberland Island, Georgia
Author: Susan King Miller
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Category : White-tailed deer
Languages : en
Pages : 136
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Publisher:
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Category : White-tailed deer
Languages : en
Pages : 136
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Dissertation Abstracts International
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Category : Dissertations, Academic
Languages : en
Pages : 734
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Category : Dissertations, Academic
Languages : en
Pages : 734
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Topical Bibliography for the White-tailed Deer (Odocoileus Virginianus) in Nine U.S. National Park Service Regions and Parts of Canada
Author: Jonathan E. Hoeldtke
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Category : Cervidae
Languages : en
Pages : 172
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Category : Cervidae
Languages : en
Pages : 172
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Social Behavior of White-tailed Deer in Relation to Habitat
Author: David H. Hirth
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Category : Animal behavior
Languages : en
Pages : 64
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Category : Animal behavior
Languages : en
Pages : 64
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The Productivity and Management of Deer on the Edwin S. George Reserve
Author: David Hall Jenkins
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Category : Deer
Languages : en
Pages : 422
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Category : Deer
Languages : en
Pages : 422
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Cemetery Information, Boone County
Ecology and Management of White-tailed Deer in Northeastern Coastal Habitats
Author: Brian L. Cypher
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Category : Cervidae
Languages : en
Pages : 68
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Publisher:
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Category : Cervidae
Languages : en
Pages : 68
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American Doctoral Dissertations
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Category : Dissertation abstracts
Languages : en
Pages : 776
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Publisher:
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Category : Dissertation abstracts
Languages : en
Pages : 776
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