Survival of white-tailed deer fawns in southern Illinois

Journal of Wildlife Management

Volumn 71, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 851-860

  Rohm, John H ^a,b   Nielsen, Clayton K ^a   Woolf, Alan ^a  

^a SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries   (United States)

Author keywords

Cants latrans; Coyote; Habitat; Illinois; Mortality; Odocoileus virginianus; Predator; Survival; White tailed deer

Indexed keywords

CANID; DEER; JUVENILE; MORTALITY; POPULATION ESTIMATION; POPULATION MODELING; PREDATION; SURVIVAL;

ILLINOIS; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

CANIS LATRANS; CERVIDAE; ODOCOILEUS VIRGINIANUS;

EID: 41849149002     PISSN: 0022541X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2193/2006-027     Document Type: Article

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