Are European roe deer browsers ? A review of variations in the composition of their diets

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Bovid paleoecology and paleoenvironments from the Late Miocene of Bulgaria: Evidence from dental microwear and stable isotopes

“…This apparent contradiction invite us to include other taxa in the multi proxy approach combining microwear and stable isotope in order to characterize in objective ways the dynamics of vegetation, and by implication of past environments in southwestern of Bulgaria in parallel with the eustatic Mediterranean fluctuations. (Vesey-Fitzgerald, 1960Wilson, 1966;Stewart and Stewart, 1970;Bell, 1971;Groves, 1972;Thomson, 1973;Grobler, 1974;Montfort and Montfort, 1974;Sokolov, 1974;Vesey-Fitzgerald, 1974;Sinclair, 1977;Ralls, 1978;Grubb, 1981;Lumpkin and Kranz, 1984;Stallings, 1984;Branan and Marchinton, 1985;Shackleton, 1985;Hillman, 1986;Mac Naughton and Georgiadis, 1986;Lent, 1988;Bowyer and Leslie, 1992;Murray, 1993;Oleffe et al, 1993;Hillman-Smith and Groves, 1994;Jong et al, 1995;Heroldova, 1996;Tixier and Duncan, 1996;Kingdon, 1997;Ramirez et al, 1997;Pereladova et al, 1999;Gagnon and Chew, 2000;Ihl and Klein, 2000;Mysterud, 2000;Cransac et al, 2001;Fedosenko and Weinberg, 2001;Gebert and Verheyden-Tixier, 2001;Blake, 2002;King, 2002;Awasthi et al, 2003;…”

Selecting the best forest management alternative by aggregating ecosystem services indicators over time: A case study in central Spain

“…To assess the game habitat quality, roe deer (Capreolus capreolus L.) was chosen as a big game indicator. This species is highly demanded in the territorial context (3120 roe deer harvest in Segovia and 244 roe deer harvest in Madrid in the 2013-2014 hunting season, MAGRAMA, 2013) and its habitat requirements comprise other fauna habitat requirements linked to forests (Tixier and Duncan, 1996;San José et al, 1997;Acevedo et al, 2005;Camprodon and Brotons, 2006;Gil-Tena et al, 2007;Mangas et al, 2008). Two indicators were initially defined: Food and Shelter.…”

Speciated mechanism in Quaternary cervids (Cervus and Capreolus) on both sides of the Pyrenees: a multidisciplinary approach

“…Genetic analyses suggest that the Iberian populations separated from the European pool between isotope stages 5 and 3, and the Italian populations during the LGM 24 . Compared to red deer, roe deer are much more selective in their feeding, and when fruits and seeds are available, they select them or switch to a more browser-based diet 25 . Seasonally, they may also consume grasses 26 but mostly remain typical browsers 17 , 19 .…”