Winter Browse Availability and Use by White-Tailed Deer in Southeastern Indiana
- 1 January 1985
- journal article
- research article
- Published by JSTOR in The Journal of Wildlife Management
- Vol. 49 (1) , 120-124
- https://doi.org/10.2307/3801855
Abstract
Browse availability and use by white-tailed deer (O. virginianus) in southeastern Indiana were studied during winter 1978-1979. Significant positive regressions were found between browse use and availability for the entire study area (habitat ignored) and within mature forests and 2nd-growth woods. These data support the hypothesis that deer forage nonselectively in winter. No relationship was found between use and availability in oldfields. Browse use was lower in oldfields than in mature forests and 2nd-growth woods, but the availability of browse did not differ between habitats.This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit:
- Seasonal Changes in Heart Rates, Activity, Metabolism, and Forage Intake of White-Tailed DeerThe Journal of Wildlife Management, 1978
- Transect Methods for Population StudiesThe Journal of Wildlife Management, 1978