Spatio-temporal feeding selection of red deer in a mountainous landscape

Austral Ecology

Volumn 35, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 752-764

  Bee, Jennie N ^a   Wright, David M ^a   Tanentzap, Andrew J ^a   Lee, William G ^b   Lavers, Roger B ^c   Mills, James A ^d   Mark, Alan F ^e   Coomes, David A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b LANDCARE RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

^c New Zealand Fire Service   (New Zealand)

^d DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION   (New Zealand)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Foraging; Herbivory; Palatability indices; Sexual segregation; Variation partitioning

Indexed keywords

BROWSING; CANONICAL ANALYSIS; CORRESPONDENCE ANALYSIS; DEER; EVERGREEN FOREST; FEEDING GROUND; FOOD CONSUMPTION; FOOD SELECTION; FORAGE; GENERALIST; GRASS; HERBIVORY; HUNTING; JUVENILE; MOUNTAIN ENVIRONMENT; PALATABILITY; PLANT-HERBIVORE INTERACTION; SEX-RELATED DIFFERENCE; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; WILD POPULATION;

FIORDLAND NATIONAL PARK; NEW ZEALAND; SOUTH ISLAND; SOUTHLAND;

ANIMALIA; CERVIDAE; CERVUS ELAPHUS; MAGNOLIOPHYTA; POACEAE; UNGULATA;

EID: 78049457223     PISSN: 14429985     EISSN: 14429993     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1442-9993.2009.02082.x     Document Type: Article

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