Mortality and recruitment of white-tailed deer fawns in the wet prairie / tree island habitat of the Everglades
Boulay MC. 1992. Mortality and recruitment of white-tailed deer fawns in the wet prairie / tree island habitat of the Everglades. University of Florida
The thesis studies the mortality and recruitment of white-tailed deer fawns in Big Cypress National Preserve and Everglades National Park. The report includes introduction (Everglades deer population, research hypothesis, climate, hydrology, fire history, vegetation communities), methods (capture procedures, radio-telemetry, determination of cause of death, data analysis), results (sample population, median birth dates, annual survivorship (regarding year, gender, location, age), cause of death, temporal distribution of mortality, recruitment to herd, survival of fawns of radio-instrumented does), discussion (survival patterns, cause of death, recruitment), summary and management implications.
- Type
- Academic
- Authors
- Boulay, Margaret
- Date of Issue
- 1992-12
- Publisher
- University of Florida
- Units
- BICY
- Keywords
- Animal Studies, Juveniles, Mortality, Recruitment, Thesis, White-Tailed Deer (Odocoileus virginianus)