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  title info:
    title: Comparative foraging ecology of white-tailed deer and Angora goats on the Edwards Plateau, Texas
  name:
    name part: Jacobson, Roy Arthur.
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xx
    date issued: 1996
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    form: remote
    extent: xiii, 86 leaves : illustrations ; 28 cm.
  abstract: abundance and quality influenced the feeding behavior of
  abstract: animals ranged freely within 0.4 ha enclosures in two
  abstract: assess habitat quality for ruminants may not accurately
  abstract: availability of plant biomass in pastures. Although deer
  abstract: composition and available standing crop. During trials, deer
  abstract: consistently higher in pasture D which contained only half
  abstract: diets generally contained more in vitro digestible organic
  abstract: different management regimes and differed in plant
  abstract: digestible energy were similar between pastures and seasons.
  abstract: during fall when deer selectively consumed acorns. Deer and
  abstract: effort, traveling approximately 4 km during 10 to 14 hr of
  abstract: foraging each day. Deer fed more selectively and made
  abstract: foraging effort, diet composition and quality, and estimated
  abstract: Goat diets were dominated primarily by grasses and browse
  abstract: goat intake rates could not be predicted from the
  abstract: goats; two similar-sized ungulates with different digestive
  abstract: greater use of forbs and other uncommon forages (oak mast).
  abstract: matter than goat diets, concentrations of crude protein and
  abstract: morphologies. I contrasted patterns in deer and goat
  abstract: near Sonora during fall and summer. The pastures were under
  abstract: nutrient ingestion rates (i.e., foraging efficiency) while
  abstract: of both deer and goats varied considerably during feeding
  abstract: pastures at the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station (TAES)
  abstract: periods. During summer, goats averaged higher intake rates
  abstract: represent feeding opportunities for selective feeders.
  abstract: study suggest that traditional approaches being used to
  abstract: Surprisingly, feeding rates of deer and goats were
  abstract: than deer in both pastures. Intake rates were more similar
  abstract: the standing crop found in the B pasture. Results from this
  abstract: This study investigated how seasonal patterns in forage
  abstract: to 16 hr of foraging per day. Goats exhibited less foraging
  abstract: were highly mobile, traveling an average of 10 km during 12
  abstract: which were common in both pastures. Dry matter intake rates
  abstract: white-tailed deer ( Odocolieus virginianus) and Angora
  note: by Roy Arthur Jacobson, Jr.
  note: "Major subject: Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences".
  note: Vita.
  note: Also available online.
  note: Issued also on microfiche from Lange Micrographics.
  note: M.S. Texas A&M University 1996.
  note: Includes bibliographical references: pages 77-85.
  subject:
    topic: Major wildlife and fisheries sciences
  identifier: https://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-1996-THESIS-J342
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      url: https://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-1996-THESIS-J342
  record info:
    record content source: TXA
    record creation date: 970630
    record change date: 20220103134232.0
    record identifier: in00001375638