DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2015.03.041
Scopus记录号: 2-s2.0-84928232750
论文题名: Prescribed fire affects female white-tailed deer habitat use during summer lactation
作者: Lashley M.A. ; Chitwood M.C. ; Kays R. ; Harper C.A. ; DePerno C.S. ; Moorman C.E.
刊名: Forest Ecology and Management
ISSN: 0378-1127
出版年: 2015
卷: 348 起始页码: 220
结束页码: 225
语种: 英语
英文关键词: Compositional analysis
; Cover
; Fire-return interval
; Longleaf pine
; Odocoileus virginianus
; Pinus palustris
Scopus关键词: Ecosystems
; Physiology
; Compositional analysis
; Cover
; Fire return intervals
; Longleaf pine
; Odocoileus virginianus
; Pinus palustris
; Fires
; adaptation
; deer
; GPS
; habitat management
; habitat use
; lactation
; regeneration
; sex-related difference
; site fidelity
; summer
; Cervidae
; Odocoileus virginianus
; Pinus palustris
英文摘要: Prescribed fire commonly is used to manage habitat for white-tailed deer (. Odocoileus virginianus). Although the effects of fire on forage availability for deer have been studied, how female deer use burned areas is not well known, particularly as it relates to fire season and the years-since-fire. We used GPS tracking data from 16 adult female white-tailed deer to assess the effects of fire season and years-since-fire on habitat use during summer lactation. Females selected unburned drainages and older (>1. yr-since-fire) burned areas, and avoided recently burned areas. Individuals with a greater percentage of their summer core area burned expanded the size of their summer home range but did not change summer core area size. Furthermore, summer core area site fidelity (i.e., % overlap between 2011 and 2012 core areas) decreased as the percentage of the 2011 summer core area burned in 2012 increased. Female deer increased selection of burned areas as years-since-fire increased, likely because there was a temporary loss of cover immediately following fire with plants slowly regenerating the subsequent growing seasons. Likewise, to avoid areas depleted of cover, females shifted their core areas away from recent burns when possible but increased their core area size when burned areas were unavoidable (i.e., a large portion of their home range was burned). Burning large contiguous areas may initially have a negative effect on female deer during lactation because of the depletion of cover. © 2015 Elsevier B.V. Citation statistics:
资源类型: 期刊论文
标识符: http://119.78.100.158/handle/2HF3EXSE/65433
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作者单位: Fisheries, Wildlife and Conservation Biology Program, Department of Forestry and Environmental Resources, North Carolina State University, 110 Brooks Avenue, Raleigh, NC, United States; North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences, 11 West Jones Street, Raleigh, NC, United States; Department of Forestry, Wildlife and Fisheries, University of Tennessee, 2431 Joe Johnson Drive, Knoxville, TN, United States
Recommended Citation:
Lashley M.A.,Chitwood M.C.,Kays R.,et al. Prescribed fire affects female white-tailed deer habitat use during summer lactation[J]. Forest Ecology and Management,2015-01-01,348