Energy and protein balance of free-ranging black-tailed deer in a natural forest environment
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Research investigating the validity of conclusions drawn from the reductionist studies of nutritional ecology of black-tailed deer using live, free-ranging deer in a unmanaged forest environment anticipated that summer is vital to the creation of body reserves, even though the largest apparent nutritional stress takes place in winter. It was also assumed that intake of digestible energy is a larger nutritional limitation than intake of digestible protein. Overall, observations agreed with these predictions. This is a positive sign for the credibility of reductionist studies in nutritional ecology of wild animals.
Publication Name: The Journal of Wildlife Management
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0022-541X
Year: 1999
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Interpreting resource selection at different scales for woodland caribou in winter
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Logistic regression, information-theoretic approach and Global Positioning System (GPS) radio telemetry data was used to evaluate the importance of different covariates in resource selection by large caribou in the winter and later-winter seasons. Results reveal that energetic cost of movement was the most important covariate for all caribou at a spatial scale defined by seasonal movement.
Publication Name: The Journal of Wildlife Management
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0022-541X
Year: 2006
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Ecology and translocation-aided recovery of an endangered badger population
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The range-limit ecology of the American badger (Taxidea taxus) is characterized by examining the space-use, diet and demography in southeastern British Columbia. Translocation is shown to be a useful diagnostic and conservation tool for badgers at their northern limit, where itEs utility is extended to countering the fluctuations typical of other rare, range-limiting species.
Publication Name: The Journal of Wildlife Management
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0022-541X
Year: 2008
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