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WILDLIFE BIOLOGY
卷 20, 期 5, 页码 270-278出版社
WILDLIFE BIOLOGY
DOI: 10.2981/wlb.00050
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- Univ. of Tennessee Inst. of Agriculture and Natural Resources Innovation Fund
- Dept of Forestry, Wildlife and Fisheries
- US Fish and Wildlife Service
Traditional methods for estimating white-tailed deer population size and density are affected by behavioral biases, poor detection in densely forested areas, and invalid techniques for estimating effective trapping area. We evaluated a noninvasive method of capture-recapture for white-tailed deer Odocoileus virginianus density estimation using DNA extracted from fecal pellets as an individual marker and for gender determination, coupled with a spatial detection function to estimate density (spatially explicit capture-recapture, SECR). We collected pellet groups from 11 to 22 January 2010 at randomly selected sites within a 1-km(2) area located on Arnold Air Force Base in Coffee and Franklin counties, Tennessee. We searched 703 10-m radius plots and collected 352 pellet-group samples from 197 plots over five two-day sampling intervals. Using only the freshest pellets we recorded 140 captures of 33 different animals (15M: 18F). Male and female densities were 1.9 (SE = 0.8) and 3.8 (SE = 1.3) deer km(-2), or a total density of 5.8 deer km(-2) (14.9 deer mile(-2)). Population size was 20.8 (SE = 7.6) over a 360-ha area, and sex ratio was 1.0 M: 2.0 F (SE = 0.71). We found DNA sampling from pellet groups improved deer abundance, density and sex ratio estimates in contiguous landscapes which could be used to track responses to harvest or other management actions.
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