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Spatiotemporal patterns of male and female white‐tailed deer on a hunted landscape
Resource selection in sexually dimorphic ungulates is at least partially explained by sex‐specific resource requirements and risk aversion strategies. Females generally spend more time in areas with less risk and abundant, high‐quality forage due to their smaller body size. However, demographically...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9465197/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36110880 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3.9277 |
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author | Stewart, Dylan G. Gulsby, William D. Ditchkoff, Stephen S. Collier, Bret A. |
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description | Resource selection in sexually dimorphic ungulates is at least partially explained by sex‐specific resource requirements and risk aversion strategies. Females generally spend more time in areas with less risk and abundant, high‐quality forage due to their smaller body size. However, demographically variable responses to risk are context dependent, and few have concurrently quantified male and female behavior within areas with the same resource base. We captured 111 (54 males, 57 females) adult white‐tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) from 2009 to 2018 on a site in South Carolina, USA, where hunters were the primary source of adult mortality. We fit each deer with a GPS collar programmed to collect locations at 30‐min intervals. Upon collar recovery, we analyzed the data to estimate sex‐ and time‐specific selection for, and distance to, various cover types. While both sexes generally avoided risky areas (i.e., sites hunted more frequently) during the day, females (p = .41) were more likely than males (p = .16) to use risky areas containing abundant food resources during the day, where p = probability of selection. Our findings indicate that female white‐tailed deer may be forced to utilize high risk areas during high risk periods due to their smaller body size and increased nutritional demands, whereas larger males are better able to forgo foraging opportunities during risky periods to mitigate risk; however, our study design left room for the possibility that our observations were driven by innate sex‐specific patterns in white‐tailed deer. Nonetheless, our study contributes information to the literature by describing sex‐specific resource selection by diel period on a site where sexes shared the same resources and were presented with the same landscape of risk. |
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spelling | pubmed-94651972022-09-14 Spatiotemporal patterns of male and female white‐tailed deer on a hunted landscape Stewart, Dylan G. Gulsby, William D. Ditchkoff, Stephen S. Collier, Bret A. Ecol Evol Research Articles Resource selection in sexually dimorphic ungulates is at least partially explained by sex‐specific resource requirements and risk aversion strategies. Females generally spend more time in areas with less risk and abundant, high‐quality forage due to their smaller body size. However, demographically variable responses to risk are context dependent, and few have concurrently quantified male and female behavior within areas with the same resource base. We captured 111 (54 males, 57 females) adult white‐tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) from 2009 to 2018 on a site in South Carolina, USA, where hunters were the primary source of adult mortality. We fit each deer with a GPS collar programmed to collect locations at 30‐min intervals. Upon collar recovery, we analyzed the data to estimate sex‐ and time‐specific selection for, and distance to, various cover types. While both sexes generally avoided risky areas (i.e., sites hunted more frequently) during the day, females (p = .41) were more likely than males (p = .16) to use risky areas containing abundant food resources during the day, where p = probability of selection. Our findings indicate that female white‐tailed deer may be forced to utilize high risk areas during high risk periods due to their smaller body size and increased nutritional demands, whereas larger males are better able to forgo foraging opportunities during risky periods to mitigate risk; however, our study design left room for the possibility that our observations were driven by innate sex‐specific patterns in white‐tailed deer. Nonetheless, our study contributes information to the literature by describing sex‐specific resource selection by diel period on a site where sexes shared the same resources and were presented with the same landscape of risk. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2022-09-11 /pmc/articles/PMC9465197/ /pubmed/36110880 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3.9277 Text en © 2022 The Authors. Ecology and Evolution published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Research Articles Stewart, Dylan G. Gulsby, William D. Ditchkoff, Stephen S. Collier, Bret A. Spatiotemporal patterns of male and female white‐tailed deer on a hunted landscape |
title | Spatiotemporal patterns of male and female white‐tailed deer on a hunted landscape |
title_full | Spatiotemporal patterns of male and female white‐tailed deer on a hunted landscape |
title_fullStr | Spatiotemporal patterns of male and female white‐tailed deer on a hunted landscape |
title_full_unstemmed | Spatiotemporal patterns of male and female white‐tailed deer on a hunted landscape |
title_short | Spatiotemporal patterns of male and female white‐tailed deer on a hunted landscape |
title_sort | spatiotemporal patterns of male and female white‐tailed deer on a hunted landscape |
topic | Research Articles |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9465197/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36110880 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3.9277 |
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