Forage availability and the diet of fallow deer (Dama dama) in the Blue Mountains, Otago / by G. Nugent

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Forage availability and the diet of fallow deer (Dama dama) in the Blue Mountains, Otago / by G. Nugent

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Index New Zealand

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Describes deer diet and forage availability for the three main habitat types (beech, shrub-hardwood, and exotic forest). Complements a concurrent investigation of white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) diet in podocarp-hardwood forest on Stewart Island (Nugent and Challies, 1988). Discusses the implications of a major finding of both these studies being that deer obtained much of their food after it had fallen from the canopy or sub canopy, in the context of deer impact on plant regenera...

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Journal

Date created

1990

Creator

Nugent, G., (Forest Research Institute, Christchurch)

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http://natlib.govt.nz/records/22973240

Related subjects

Fallow deer / Deer -- Feeding and feeds / Deer -- Food / Food preferences / New Zealand -- Otago -- Blue Mountains / Observations

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