Distribution and interaction of white-tailed deer and cattle in a semi-arid grazing system

Cooper, Susan M.; Perotto‐Baldivieso, Humberto L.; Owens, M. K.; Meek, Michael Glenn; Figueroa-Pagán, Manuel

doi:10.1016/j.agee.2008.03.004

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“…When deer and cattle use the same habitats they generally exhibit temporal separation. On the few occasions that the two species come close to each other, deer tend not to move away until cattle are within 50 m (Cooper et al, 2008). Consequently, on large areas of treated land, cattle are unlikely to displace deer and prevent them from feeding.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 97%

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White-tailed deer distribution in response to patch burning on rangeland

Meek

Cooper

Owens

et al. 2008

Journal of Arid Environments

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 97%

“…Supplemental feed was available for the deer at six sites away from the burns. Analysis of deer use of water and supplemental feeders using the same data set, however, indicates that deer do not linger by these resources; less than 2% of relocations place deer within 100 m of water or feeders (Cooper et al, 2008).…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 98%

White-tailed deer distribution in response to patch burning on rangeland

Meek

Cooper

Owens

et al. 2008

Journal of Arid Environments

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“…In a study on moose-livestock interactions based on GPS collared animals in one of our study areas (Nannestad), we found that moose indeed had a narrower habitat niche breadth when the habitat overlap with livestock increased, suggesting that moose habitat utilization is constrained in periods when livestock uses the same habitats . Behavioral avoidance between wild and domestic ungulates is expected to favor the domestic species (Kr€ amer 1973, Coe et al 2001, Cooper et al 2008. Domestication selects for less fearful animals (Price 1999, Welp et al 2004, which possibly explains why avoidance through fear responses may be more prevalent in moose than in livestock.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Subtle foodscape displacement of a native ungulate by free‐ranging livestock in a forest agroecosystem

Wam

Herfindal

2018

Ecosphere

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The prevalence of livestock grazing in wildlife areas is increasing. This transformation of ecosystems into agroecosystems is concerning because the introduction of new species may cause niche displacement of the functionally related native species. We used a large‐scale fence scheme and fecal analyses to study the influence of free‐ranging livestock on moose diet on three boreal forest ranges. We found low interspecific diet overlap between moose and livestock (mean Pianka's O across ranges = 0.21, SD = 0.104), and the diet overlap with livestock did not differ between moose in areas with livestock and in adjacent control areas without livestock. Still, moose sympatric with livestock had less fecal nitrogen (a proxy for diet quality) than moose in the control areas. Our findings suggest that interspecific interactions other than direct food competition contributed to reduce the moose’ foraging opportunities, such as altered forage abundance and composition, or behavioral avoidance of livestock. We caution that displacement in the foodscape (i.e., spatiotemporal use of food) can occur through pathways not evident in niche indices based on composition of plant species in the diet.

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“…The area that presented the highest relative abundance of woody species was the area of extensive production of livestock, perhaps because this was the only land in which the existing plant cover was not completely removed and goats might have dispersed some species, such as Bernardia myricifolia, H. pallens, and Diospyros texana (Romero and Ramírez, 2003;Ramírez et al, 2006;Cooper et al, 2008). The lower abundance of woody species in the areas of intensive production of livestock and agriculture might be a consequence of removal of all plant cover and possible changes in soil characteristics.…”

Section: Characterizing Regeneration Of Woody Species In Areasmentioning

confidence: 98%