Effects of maternal nutrition, resource use and multi-predator risk on neonatal white-tailed deer survival.

Growth of ungulate populations is typically most sensitive to survival of neonates, which in turn is influenced by maternal nutritional condition and trade-offs in resource selection and avoidance of predators. We assessed whether resource use, multi-predator risk, maternal nutritional effects, hidi...

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Main Authors: Jared F Duquette, Jerrold L Belant, Nathan J Svoboda, Dean E Beyer, Patrick E Lederle
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4072703?pdf=render