Home range location of white-tailed deer.

Michael E. Nelson

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Home range location of white-tailed deer.

Informally Refereed

Authors:

Michael E. Nelson

Year:

1979

Type:

Research Paper

Station:

Northern Research Station

Source:

Research Paper NC-173. St. Paul, MN: U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Forest Service, North Central Forest Experiment Station

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Abstract

Deer migrations and home range traditions indicated that home range location is determined more by early social experience, learning, and tradition than by an innate ability to select the best habitat. Different deer preferred the same or similar habitat but such selection was a secondary influence on home range location.

Keywords

habitat, home range, migration, social organization, traditions

Citation

Nelson, Michael E. 1979. Home range location of white-tailed deer. Research Paper NC-173. St. Paul, MN: U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Forest Service, North Central Forest Experiment Station