Competition in sympatric white-tailed deer and cattle populations in southern pine forests of Oklahoma and Arkansas, USA

Jenks, Jonathan A.; Leslie, David M.; Lochmiller, Robert L.; Melchiors, M. Anthony; McCollum, I. I. I. F. T.

doi:10.4098/at.arch.96-28

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“…Our results support dietary analyses (Jenks et al 1996), which indicated that cattle can negatively affect deer condition in pine-broomsedge forests. Heavy cattle stocking (> 5 ha/AU) seemed to negatively affect deer reproductive rate, as well as morphometric and biochemical indices.…”

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“…Density, winter nutrition, and competitive interactions can negatively affect deer condition and reproduction and predispose deer to disease. Because livestock can out-compete deer for preferred forage, causing deer to forage in areas containing vegetation of lower nutritional value (Crawford 1984, Jenks et al 1996, Stewart et al 2002, nutritional indicators may provide further evidence of negative effects of competitive interactions. Yet, despite substantial information that has accumulated on baseline levels of indices of nutritional condition, few studies have assessed effects of cattle stocking using nutritional information.…”

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Effect of domestic cattle on the condition of female white-tailed deer in southern pine-bluestem forests, USA

Jenks

Leslie

2003

Acta Theriol

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2003. Effect of domestic cattle on the condition of female white-tailed deer in southern pine-bluestem forests, USA. Acta Theriologica 48: 131-144.Effect of domestic cattle stocking on the nutritional condition of white-tailed deer Odocoileus virginianus (Zimmermann, 1780) was assessed using physiological indices of collected specimens. Three study areas were delineated in McCurtain County, Oklahoma (heavy cattle stocking), and Howard (moderate to light cattle stocking) and Pike (no cattle stocking) counties, Arkansas that were similar with respect to soils and vegetation but differed with respect to cattle stocking rate. Female white-tailed deer were collected from study areas in February and August 1987-1988 to assess nutritional condition. Deer collected from study areas exposed to cattle grazing in February had lower carcass weights, fat attributes (femur marrow and kidney fat), and reproductive rates (fetuses/doe) than deer that were not exposed to cattle grazing. In August, deer collected from the moderate cattle area had heavier eviscerated carcass weights, serum glucose, albumin, and albumin/globulin ratios than deer collected from the heavy cattle area. Results suggest that if cattle are removed from managed forests in winter, nutritional condition of deer would be improved because of reduced competition for food.

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Effect of domestic cattle on the condition of female white-tailed deer in southern pine-bluestem forests, USA

Jenks

Leslie

2003

Acta Theriol

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“…Heavier mass of rumen digesta also was reported in mule deer with consumption of low-quality diets compared with high-quality diets (Baker and Hobbs 1987). Jenks et al (1994Jenks et al ( , 1996 reported reduced ruminal fill and greater intestinal fill in white-tailed deer on higher-quality diets compared with those occurring sympatrically with cattle that consumed a lower-quality diet. Our results supported those of Jenks et al (1994) for white-tailed deer; rumen digesta dry weights were greater in poorer-quality habitat (i.e., unburned habitat).…”

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Gastrointestinal Morphology of Female White-Tailed and Mule Deer: Effects of Fire, Reproduction, and Feeding Type

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2006

Journal of Mammalogy

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“…Most nutritional studies of ungulates have used fecal nitrogen (FN) content as an index of dietary quality because of the relationship between nitrogen and protein (Osborn & Jenks 1998). The concentration of nitrogen in feces has been correlated with dietary intake of nitrogen and has been used successfully to monitor dietary quality of black‐tailed deer ( O. hemionus columbianus ; Leslie & Starkey 1985), white‐tailed deer ( O. virginianus ; Howery & Pfister 1990; Jenks et al . 1996) and sika deer (Asada & Ochiai 1999).…”

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Benefit of migration in a female sika deer population in eastern Hokkaido, Japan

Sakuragi

Igota

Uno

et al. 2003

Ecological Research

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The major factors affecting migration in large herbivores have been shown to be access to food resources and the risk of predation. Three migratory types of deer (resident, north migrant and east migrant) occur within a wintering female sika deer (Cervus nippon) population in eastern Hokkaido, Japan. We tested the hypothesis that north and east migrants feed on a higher quality diet than residents during summer, based on analyses of fecal nitrogen content. Fresh fecal pellets were collected in 18 summer ranges in the wintering area, northern area and eastern area between 1–5 August 2000. Fecal nitrogen content for all sampling sites was positively correlated with elevation, but was not correlated with distance from the wintering area. North migrants that inhabited higher (above 300 m elevation) summer ranges fed on a higher quality diet than residents. In contrast, the dietary quality of east migrants that migrated over a long distance and inhabited lower (below 300 m elevation) summer ranges was similar to that of residents. We conclude that east migrants may have gained significant benefit from the use of agricultural pastures with low population density conditions and without hunting; however, the recent population control program has reduced this benefit by avoiding the use of pasturelands.

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Competition in sympatric white-tailed deer and cattle populations in southern pine forests of Oklahoma and Arkansas, USA

Cited by 21 publications

References 66 publications

Effect of domestic cattle on the condition of female white-tailed deer in southern pine-bluestem forests, USA

Effect of domestic cattle on the condition of female white-tailed deer in southern pine-bluestem forests, USA

Gastrointestinal Morphology of Female White-Tailed and Mule Deer: Effects of Fire, Reproduction, and Feeding Type

Benefit of migration in a female sika deer population in eastern Hokkaido, Japan

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