Non-indigenous introgression into the Norwegian red deer population

The population of Red Deer (Cervus elaphus L., 1758) in Tulcea county (Romania) The presence of the Red Deer in the North-western parts of Tulcea County is an example of the natural expansion of a species spreading area. In North Dobrogea, this mammal first occurred only forty years ago. The first specimens were spotted on Cocoşul Hill (on the territory of Niculiţel area) in 1970. Peak numbers (68 individuals) were registered in the spring of 1987. The deer population (67 specimens in 2007) of this county extended along 10 km from West to East and 20 km from North to South over a total of 23,000 ha (55% of which was forest land) in the East of the Măcin Mountains and in the West of the Niculiţel Plateau.

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Inter- and Intrasexual Variation in Aging Patterns across Reproductive Traits in a Wild Red Deer Population

The American Naturalist ◽

10.2307/40306063 ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 174 (3) ◽

pp. 342

Author(s):

Nussey ◽

Kruuk ◽

Morris ◽

Clements ◽

Pemberton ◽

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Keyword(s):

Red Deer ◽

Reproductive Traits ◽

Deer Population

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Tracking red deer population size using deterministic cohort analysis

Mammalian Biology ◽

10.1007/s42991-021-00128-z ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Valerio Donini ◽

Luca Corlatti ◽

Luca Pedrotti

Keyword(s):

Population Size ◽

Cervus Elaphus ◽

Red Deer ◽

Cohort Analysis ◽

Cost Effective ◽

Natural Mortality ◽

Relative Index ◽

Deer Population ◽

Monitoring Tools ◽

Over Time

AbstractReliable and cost-effective monitoring tools to track population size over time are of key importance for wildlife management and conservation. Deterministic cohort analysis may be used to this aim, especially in hunted populations, but it requires that all mortality events are recorded and that individual age at death is known exactly. In this study, we investigated the reliability of cohort analysis as a relative index to track over-time variation in red deer (Cervus elaphus) abundance, in the absence of exact information about natural mortality and age. Visual tooth inspection was used to age 18,390 individuals found dead or hunted between 1982 and 2020 within the Trentino sector of the Stelvio National Park and the Val di Sole hunting district (Central Italian Alps). Temporal trend of reconstructed population size was checked using spring spotlight counts as a benchmark, through the Buishand range test and a linear model. Our results showed a significant and positive relationship between reconstructed population size and spring spotlight counts between 1982 and 2013, suggesting that cohort analysis could reliably track red deer population trend up to 7 years in the past. With a relative error of + 1.1 (SD = 1.5) years in the estimation of age, and fairly stable hunting pressure, our results support the use of deterministic cohort analysis as a relative index of abundance for monitoring red deer over time, even in the absence of exact information about natural mortality. Under violation of assumptions, however, the performance of deterministic reconstruction should be carefully inspected at the management scale.

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The history of Crimean red deer population and Cervus phylogeography in Eurasia

Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society ◽

10.1093/zoolinnean/zlx065 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 183 (1) ◽

pp. 208-225 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Karolina Doan ◽

Paweł Mackiewicz ◽

Edson Sandoval-Castellanos ◽

Krzysztof Stefaniak ◽

Bogdan Ridush ◽

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Keyword(s):

Red Deer ◽

Deer Population ◽

History Of

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Mitigation of bark stripping on spruce: the need for red deer population control

European Journal of Forest Research ◽

10.1007/s10342-020-01326-z ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Romain Candaele ◽

Philippe Lejeune ◽

Alain Licoppe ◽

Céline Malengreaux ◽

Yves Brostaux ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Red Deer ◽

Population Control ◽

Bark Stripping ◽

Deer Population

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Reconstructing the history of a fragmented and heavily exploited red deer population using ancient and contemporary DNA

BMC Evolutionary Biology ◽

10.1186/1471-2148-12-191 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 12 (1) ◽

pp. 191 ◽

Cited By ~ 18

Author(s):

Jørgen Rosvold ◽

Knut H Røed ◽

Anne Hufthammer ◽

Reidar Andersen ◽

Hans K Stenøien

Keyword(s):

Red Deer ◽

Deer Population ◽

History Of

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Winter diet of introduced red deer (Cervus elaphus) in woodland vegetation in Grampians National Park, western Victoria

Australian Mammalogy ◽

10.1071/am14013 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 37 (1) ◽

pp. 107 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Cathryn Roberts ◽

Martin Westbrooke ◽

Singarayer Florentine ◽

Simon Cook

Keyword(s):

Cervus Elaphus ◽

National Park ◽

Red Deer ◽

Seedling Recruitment ◽

Deer Population ◽

Dietary Preferences ◽

Winter Diet ◽

Woody Shrubs ◽

Western Victoria ◽

Trees And Shrubs

Although red deer (Cervus elaphus) have the potential to play a major role in influencing the structure and composition of vegetation, little is known about the dietary preferences of red deer in Australia. In the Grampians National Park, Victoria, where there is a large, established red deer population, there has been concern over the condition of woodlands, with lack of perennial seedling recruitment observed. We estimated the diets of 12 red deer using macroscopic sorting techniques. We examined rumen contents of seven male and five female red deer from four woodland Ecological Vegetation Classes, which indicate that they act as intermediate feeders. A wide variety of plants were ingested, with evergreen tree species, small trees and woody shrubs making up a large proportion of the diet, along with grasses. This study found that red deer show significantly different dietary intake due to sex, with females consuming a diet much higher in grasses, while males consume more trees and shrubs. These findings have implications for the management of red deer populations within the park and broader implications for their effects on Australian ecosystems.

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Genetic structure of red deer population in northeastern Poland in relation to the history of human interventions

Journal of Wildlife Management ◽

10.1002/jwmg.367 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 76 (6) ◽

pp. 1264-1276 ◽

Cited By ~ 21

Author(s):

Magdalena Niedziałkowska ◽

Bogumiła Jędrzejewska ◽

Jan M. Wójcik ◽

Simon J. Goodman

Keyword(s):

Genetic Structure ◽

Red Deer ◽

Deer Population ◽

Human Interventions ◽

History Of ◽

Northeastern Poland

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Model gospodarowania populacją jelenia europejskiego Cervus elaphus L. w Wolińskim Parku Narodowym i na Wyspie Wolin

Zarządzanie ochroną przyrody w lasach ◽

10.5604/01.3001.0012.1666 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol XI ◽

pp. 81-90

Author(s):

Adam Mohr ◽

Antoni Przybylski ◽

Małgorzata Zimnicka – Pluskota ◽

Damian Spieczyński

Keyword(s):

Population Density ◽

Population Growth ◽

Cervus Elaphus ◽

Environmental Conditions ◽

Red Deer ◽

Actual State ◽

Model Population ◽

Deer Population ◽

Proposed Model ◽

Age And Sex

The paper presents the current methods of management and environmental conditions of the functioning of red deer population on the Wolin Island. The inventory carried out in 2014 using the drive census method revealed the prevalence of stags in the population (0.86 hinds/1stag) and the population density of 225 individuals/1,000 hectares of the forest, whereas harvest conducted in this season showed merely 22 individuals/1,000 hectares. In the analysed seasons before the inventory, harvest was also low (about 10% of the probable actual state) and despite harvesting mainly hinds, it did not curb the population growth. In the years 2006 – 2014, the yearly harvest in the largest hunting district fluctuated within the range of 14.5 to 60.5, x̅=27.0 individuals/1,000 hectares (n=9), while in the remaining four smaller population management units, the average yearly harvest amounted to only 0.2 to 9.8 individuals/1,000 hectares (n=9). The realized rate of population growth determined by the method of summer deer observation in 2015 amounted to 42.2% of the hinds number. Applying the simulation of the model population meeting the parameters indicated in the inventory, the researchers calculated and proposed the optimal indicators of harvesting individual age and sex groups. The proposed model of hunting monitoring and management assumes optimization of environmental conditions, structure and size of the actual population within the next 10 years.

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