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- Title
Dependence of individual foraging area on group size in spotted deer Cervus nippon (Temm., 1838) during the period with permanent snow cover.
- Authors
Maslov, M.; Bogatov, V.
- Abstract
Assessment of the daily foraging areas of spotted deer that belonged to groups of different sizes was performed in the Ussuriiskii Nature Reserve (Primorskii krai) during the period with permanent snow cover. Calculations showed that the foraging area size per individual was inversely correlated to the number of individuals in the group. We hypothesized that large groups of Spotted deer are capable of more efficient use of the living range for foraging than the groups composed by smaller numbers of individuals.
- Subjects
AXIS axis; FORAGING behavior; GROUP size; SNOW cover; NATURE reserves
- Publication
Russian Journal of Ecology, 2017, Vol 48, Issue 3, p251
- ISSN
1067-4136
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1134/S1067413617030109