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Living under the scope: behavior affects survival in a heavily harvested and long‐lived ungulate
Wildlife Biology, EarlyView.The spatiotemporal behavior of game species may play a critical role in their survival throughout the hunting season. Where humans are the most dominant predators, avoidance of landscape features that allow hunter access to hunting grounds can be key to increasing survival.
Lukas Graf +4 more
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Indirect effects between deer, mice, and the gypsy moth in a forest community [PDF]
, 2014 White-tailed deer are ecosystem engineers that dramatically alter forest understory vegetation. Consequently, deer can impact many species in a forest through both direct and indirect effects. One species that deer may indirectly affect is the gypsy moth,
Wojcikiewicz, John
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Hunting regulations and movements of alpine reindeer
Wildlife Biology, EarlyView.Most ungulate populations are regulated by hunting, and harvest rate is regulated through quotas and hunting season duration. Hunting is well known to affect behaviour of ungulates, but how annual variation in quotas and hunting season duration affects individual behaviour remains uncertain.
Atle Mysterud +3 more
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Deer-Activated Bioacoustic Frightening Device Deters White-Tailed Deer
Human-Wildlife Interactions, 2017 White-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) damage urban and suburban plantings, as well as crops and stored feed. We tested the efficacy of a frightening device that played pre-recorded distress calls of adult female white-tailed deer when activated by ...
Aaron M. Hildreth +2 more
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Results of Environmental Scanning Applied to the Design of a Deer Management Decision Support System (DSS) For The United States and California [PDF]
, 2014 Using freely available internet search tools for environmental scanning, information related to deer management was collected, categorized, and evaluated with the goal of providing public decision support.
Webb, G. Kent
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Wildlife Biology, EarlyView.Glucocorticoids regulate many physiological functions and play an important role in coping with challenging stimuli. The non‐invasive assessment of glucocorticoids is increasingly used as a tool to evaluate individual and population health status in wild animals.
Carlo Cinque +6 more
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Detection of Borrelia burgdorferi in historic tick samples and its relevance to the white-tailed deer population in New Hampshire [PDF]
, 2018 The cases of Lyme disease in New Hampshire have increased over time. There are speculations that increasing number of Lyme disease cases in New Hampshire are due to environmental factors, such as warmer climate, white-footed mouse population, white ...
Rakasiwi, Tasya
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Wildlife Biology, EarlyView.Large mammals are darted with dart guns to inject drugs or to collect biopsy tissue for capture, research, or veterinary purposes, especially for procedures involving wild and zoo animals. Darting is invasive and associated with risks of trauma, and severe and fatal dart injuries have been reported.
Jörg Beckmann +2 more
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Parasites & Vectors, 2015 Background Recent studies revealed expansion of filarioid nematodes into northern Finland. In addition to Setaria tundra, an abundant filarioid, Rumenfilaria andersoni, was found inhabiting the lymphatic vessels of reindeer.
Sauli Laaksonen +2 more
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Cysticercus tenuicollis: A New State Record for Ohio [PDF]
, 1988 Author Institution: Department of Biological Sciences and Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Bowling Green State UniversityCysticercus tenuicollis (Taenia hydatigena) is reported for the first time from Ohio.
Rabalais, Francis C. +2 more
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