Untangling the landscape of deer overabundance: Reserve size versus landscape context in the agricultural Midwest

Biological Conservation

Volumn 146, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 62-71

  Hurley, Peter M ^a   Webster, Christopher R ^a   Flaspohler, David J ^a   Parker, George R ^b  

^a MICHIGAN TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Purdue University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Cross habitat interactions; Herbaceous; Herbivory; Indiana state park; Landscape context; Odocoileus virginianus; Protected area; Spatial heterogeneity

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; AGRICULTURAL LAND; AKAIKE INFORMATION CRITERION; BUFFER ZONE; DEER; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; FOREST RESOURCE; HABITAT CONSERVATION; HABITAT TYPE; HERB; HERBIVORY; HETEROGENEITY; HOME RANGE; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; NATURE RESERVE; RESERVE DESIGN; UNDERSTORY;

MIDWEST; UNITED STATES;

CERVIDAE; ODOCOILEUS VIRGINIANUS; UNGULATA;

EID: 84857449605     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2011.10.034     Document Type: Article

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