Home Range, Habitat Use, Edge Relationships, Mortality Sources, Age Structure, and Survival of White-Tailed Deer on Mount Desert Island, Maine 1992-1994
Fuller AK and Harrison DJ. 2009. Home Range, Habitat Use, Edge Relationships, Mortality Sources, Age Structure, and Survival of White-Tailed Deer on Mount Desert Island, Maine 1992-1994. Department of Wildlife Ecology, University of Maine. University of Maine, Orono Maine
A study on the deer population to determine causes of mortality, fecundity rates, yearling and adult survival rates, fawn survival rates, movements, habitat selection, and spatial interactions with roads, developed areas, and coyote territories "Deer populations were studied in Acadia National Park during 1992-1994 to evaluate causes of mortality, fecundity rates, yearling and adult survival rates, fawn survival rates, movements, habitat selection, and spatial interactions with roads, developed areas, and coyote territories. Twenty-seven fawns and sixteen adult deer were equipped with radio collared and monitored during the course of this study... These results suggest a high potential for interaction of deer with vehicles, humans, and coyotes within the eastern portion of Acadia National Park. We make several recommendations for future monitoring of deer population within Acadia National Park and for the increased management of deer-vehicle interactions in MDI." "Our research suggests, that with our observed estimates of fawn and adult doe survival, the deer population on MDI would be predicted to exhibit a decreasing population trajectory... not attributable to a lack of high quality forage, as documented by Saeki (1991). Our results suggest that the deer population was likely declining because of low fawn survival and low survival of yearling and adult does." /STUDY LOCATIONS:/ /MOUNT DESERT ISLAND/Sand Beach/Kebo Mountain/Otter Creek/
- Type
- Published Report
- Authors
- Fuller, Angela; Harrison, Daniel
- Date of Issue
- 2009-10
- Publisher
- Department of Wildlife Ecology, University of Maine
- Units
- ACAD
- Keywords
- Abundance, Browsing, Competition, cumulative impacts, Distribution, ecosystem-based management, Education, Environmental Education, Feeding, Geographic Distribution, Habitat, Human Impact, Human Impacts, Human-Animal Encounters, Impacts, Interagency Cooperation, Inventory, Mammals, Monitoring, Mortality, Mount Desert Island, Pellets (Fecal), Predation, Survey, Survival Rate, Terrestrial, Traffic, Vascular Plants, Vegetation, Winter