Quality of plant species utilized by northern white-tailed deer in summer along a climatic gradient

Ecoscience

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 439-451

  Lesage, L ^a   Crete M ^a   Huot, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Climate; Forage; Nitrogen; Nutrition; Plant digestibility; Protein; Summer

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE; DIGESTIBILITY; FOOD QUALITY; FORAGE; PLANT-HERBIVORE INTERACTION; UNGULATE;

CANADA;

ODOCOILEUS VIRGINIANUS;

EID: 0034486741     PISSN: 11956860     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/11956860.2000.11682615     Document Type: Article

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