Drought effect on selection of conservation reserve program grasslands by white-tailed deer on the Northern Great Plains

American Midland Naturalist

Volumn 166, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 147-162

  Grovenburg, Troy W ^a   Jacques, Christopher N ^b   Klaver, Robert W ^c   Jenks, Jonathan A ^a  

^a SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Bureau of Science Services   (United States)

^c U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL PRACTICE; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; DEER; DROUGHT; ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECT; ESTIMATION METHOD; FOOD AVAILABILITY; FORAGE; FOREST COVER; FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; HABITAT CONSERVATION; HABITAT SELECTION; HOME RANGE; POPULATION STRUCTURE; PRAIRIE; RESOURCE SELECTION; SEMIARID REGION; WATER AVAILABILITY;

GREAT PLAINS;

CERVIDAE; ODOCOILEUS VIRGINIANUS; TRIFOLIUM; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 79960018795     PISSN: 00030031     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1674/0003-0031-166.1.147     Document Type: Article

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