Assessing dietary quality of white-tailed deer using fecal indices: Effects of supplemental feeding and area

Journal of Mammalogy

Volumn 79, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 437-447

  Osborn, Robert G ^a   Jenks, Jonathan A ^a  

^a SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Black Hills; Dietary quality; Fecal indices; Fecal nitrogen; Fecal phosphorus; Odocoileus virginianus; South Dakota; Supplemental feeding; White tailed deer

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; CERVIDAE; ODOCOILEUS VIRGINIANUS;

EID: 0041819418     PISSN: 00222372     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1382974     Document Type: Article

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