Comparison of Pellet-Group and Radio Triangulation Methods for Assessing Deer Habitat Use
- 1 July 1988
- journal article
- research article
- Published by JSTOR in The Journal of Wildlife Management
- Vol. 52 (3), 524-527
- https://doi.org/10.2307/3801604
Abstract
We compared pellet-group counts and radio-telemetry triangulation methods for determining the relative habitat use by adult female mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus) on summer range in the central Sierra Nevada Mountains, California [USA]. Although a Chi-square goodness-of-fit test of observed and expected frequencies was significant, only 1 of 10 habitats was ranked out of order. Pellet-group counts are useful in ranking relative use of habitats, but may not be reliable for ranking habitats that receive similar levels of use.This publication has 6 references indexed in Scilit:
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