Culling versus density effects in management of a deer population

Journal of Wildlife Management

Volumn 74, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1472-1483

  Ueno, Mayumi ^a,c   Kaji, Koichi ^b   Saitoh, Takashi ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR NATURE RESEARCH   (Norway)

Author keywords

Cervus nippon; cohort analysis; density dependence; female harvest; harvest at age; Japan; population growth; population reconstruction; recruitment; sika deer

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL VARIATION; BIRTH RATE; CULLING; DEER; DENSITY DEPENDENCE; HUNTING; MORTALITY; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION GROWTH; POPULATION REGULATION; POPULATION SIZE; PRIORITIZATION; RECONSTRUCTION; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT;

CERVIDAE; CERVUS NIPPON;

EID: 77954084372     PISSN: 0022541X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2193/2009-339     Document Type: Article

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