Craniometric Characteristics of Sika Deer
Author : William Robert Brtalik
Publisher :
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 14,39 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Deer
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Author : William Robert Brtalik
Publisher :
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 14,39 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Deer
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Author : Koichi Kaji
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 629 pages
File Size : 15,97 MB
Release : 2022-06-20
Category : Science
ISBN : 9811695547
This book provides complete and up-to-date information on sika deer biology and its management, focusing on their life history with an integrated approach of population dynamics, morphology, genetics, and evolution. The expanding distribution of sika and its increase in population in Japan and other countries are causing damage to agriculture and forestry, impacting ecosystems and affecting other species. We are facing conflicting deer issues regarding the conservation of resource values and pest control of sika deer. This contributed volume compiles new findings focusing on the ecological plasticity of the sika deer. It aims to clarify the ecological characteristics of the deer by integrating studies of different approaches and provides a perspective for their management. The book consists of six parts. Part I introduces the ecological and management background behind the history of sika deer. The following four parts discuss movement ecology (Part II), impact on vegetation and bottom-up effect on sika deer (Part III), impact on ecosystem and its resilience (Part IV), and comparison of life-history characteristics between sika deer and other ungulate species (Part V). The last part (Part VI) covers the science-based management of sika deer. Contributed by recognized experts and young researchers of sika deer, this book appeals to researchers and professionals in wildlife biology and wildlife management, evolution, population dynamics, morphology, genetics, and reproductive physiology.
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Page : 748 pages
File Size : 32,39 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Wildlife conservation
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Author : Dale R. McCullough
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 665 pages
File Size : 46,37 MB
Release : 2008-12-05
Category : Science
ISBN : 4431094296
Sika deer, the graceful spotted deer of Japanese and Chinese art, originally were native to Asia from far-east Russia to Vietnam to the islands of Japan and Taiwan. They are widely raised in captivity to supply velvet antler for traditional medicine. They also were introduced to Europe, North America, and New Zealand, where they compete or interbreed with native deer. Sika deer typically occupy lowland hardwood forests with low winter snow depths, where they thrive in sites disturbed by fire, storm, or logging. In high numbers they can severely impact vegetation though overgrazing, stripping bark from trees and damaging crop fields and forest plantations. Their numbers are high in many parts of Japan, moderate in Russia, and reduced or extinct in the wild in China, Korea, Vietnam, and Taiwan. This book explores their basic biology, behavior, and ecology, including management for sport hunting, conservation or recovery of threatened populations, and resolution of conflict with humans in native and introduced lands.
Author : James M. Mullan
Publisher :
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 35,86 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Sika deer
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Author : Rory Putman
Publisher : Mammal Society Species Series
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 39,51 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Sika deer
ISBN : 9780906282397
Author : David Linderud
Publisher :
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 17,61 MB
Release : 1982
Category : Sika deer
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Author : Michael T. Horwood
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 39,97 MB
Release : 1981
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Page : 426 pages
File Size : 41,92 MB
Release : 1982
Category : Zoology
ISBN :
Author : Colin Groves
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 37,56 MB
Release : 2011-11-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 1421403293
A group of special interest to mammalogists, taxonomists, and systemicists, ungulates have proven difficult to classify. This comprehensive review of the taxonomic relationships of artiodactyls and perissodactyls brings forth new evidence in order to propose a theory of ungulate taxonomy. With this straightforward volume, Colin Groves and the late Peter Grubb cut through previous assumptions to define ungulate genera, species, and subspecies. The species-by-species accounts incorporate new molecular, cytogenetic, and morphological data, as well as the authors’ own observations and measurements. The authors include references and supporting arguments for new classifications. A starting point for further research, this book is sure to be discussed and hotly debated in the mammalogical community. A well-reasoned synthesis, Ungulate Taxonomy will be a defining volume for years to come.