Differential Preference of Wintering Mule Deer for Accessions of Big Sagebrush and for Black Sagebrush
- 31 August 1981
- journal article
- research article
- Published by JSTOR in Journal of Range Management
- Vol. 34 (5) , 409-411
- https://doi.org/10.2307/3897916
Abstract
Free-roaming mule deer showed significant differential preference for accessions of big sagebrush (A. tridentata) grown in a uniform garden. Mule deer also selectively preferred certain accessions of black sagebrush (A. nova). The role of monoterpenoids (essential or volatile oils) in determining preference among accessions and taxa of Artemisia (the sagebrushes) and the role of sagebrush as a food of starvation is discussed.This publication has 4 references indexed in Scilit:
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