Characteristics of mule deer day-bed and forage sites in current-condition and restoration-treated ponderosa pine forest

Wildlife Society Bulletin

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 554-564

  Germaine, Stephen S ^a,b,d,e   Germaine, Heather L ^a,c,f   Boe, Susan R ^a,g  

^a ARIZONA GAME AND FISH DEPARTMENT   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON DEPARTMENT OF FISH AND WILDLIFE   (United States)

^c NATIONAL PARK SERVICE   (United States)

^d FRAMINGHAM STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA DULUTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Arizona; Day bed; Forage; Forest restoration; Gambel oak; Mule deer; Odocoileus hemionus; Pinus ponderosa; Ponderosa pine; Quercus gambelii

Indexed keywords

FORAGE; FORESTRY; MICROHABITAT; UNGULATE; WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT;

CERVIDAE; CONIFEROPHYTA; ODOCOILEUS; ODOCOILEUS HEMIONUS; PINUS PONDEROSA; QUERCUS; QUERCUS GAMBELII; UNGULATA;

EID: 3242699039     PISSN: 00917648     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2193/0091-7648(2004)32[554:COMDDA]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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