Title Sika deer : biology and management of native and introduced populations / Dale R. McCullough, Seiki Takatsuki, Koichi Kaji, editors

Published Tokyo ; New York : Springer, ©2009

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Description 1 online resource (xx, 666 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color), maps Contents Fossil record of sika deer in Japan / Yoshinari Kawamura -- Two genetically distinct lineages of the Japanese sika deer based on mitochondrial control regions / Junco Nagata -- Evolutionary significance of admixture and fragmentation of sika deer populations in Japan / Hidetoshi B. Tamate -- Nutritional physiology of wild and domesticated Japanese sika deer / Takayoshi Masuko and Kousaku Souma -- Endocrinology of sika deer / Kiyoshi Yamauchi and Yukiko Matsuura -- Reproduction of female sika deer in Japan, with special reference to Kinkazan Island, northern Japan / Nobumasa Ohnishi [and others] -- Food habits of sika deer on Kinkazan Island, northern Japan with reference to local variations, size effects, and comparison with the main island / Seiki Takatsuki and U.K.G.K. Padmalal -- Plants and plant communities on Kinkazan Island, northern Japan, in relation to sika deer herbivory / Seiki Takatsuki and Takehiko Y. Ito -- Productivity and foraging efficiency of the short-grass (Zoysia japonica) community for sika deer / Takehiko Y. Ito, Mariko Shimoda, and Seiki Takatsuki -- Home range, habitat selection, and food habits of the sika deer using the short-grass community on Kinkazan Island, northern Japan / Takehiko Y. Ito and Seiki Takatsuki -- Shift to litterfall as year-round forage for sika deer after a population crash / Masami Miyaki and Koichi Kaji -- The dynamics of forest stands affected by sika deer on Nakanoshima Island -- change of size structure similar to the thinning effect / Masami Miyaki and Koichi Kaji -- Biology of sika deer in Hyogo : characteristics of reproduction, food habits, growth, and condition / Mayumi Yokoyama -- Bark-stripping preference of sika deer and its seasonality on Mt. Ohdaigahara, central Japan / Masaki Ando and Eiʼichi Shibata -- North-south variations in sika deer ecology as a forest-dwelling cervid / Seiki Takatsuki -- Geographical variations in food habits of sika deer : the northern grazer vs. the southern browser / Seiki Takatsuki -- What is "natural" vegetation? : a reconsideration of herbivory by wild ungulates / Seiki Takatsuki -- Seasonal migration of sika deer on Hokkaido Island, Japan / Hiromasa Igota, Mayumi Sakuragi, and Hiroyuki Uno -- Migratory and sedentary behavior patterns of sika deer in Honshu and Kyushu, Japan / Tsuneaki Yabe and Seiki Takatsuki -- Variation in mating behavior of sika deer : mating behavior of sika deer on Nozaki Island / Akira Endo -- Reproductive ecology of sika deer on Kinkazan Island, northern Japan : reproductive success of males and multi-mating of females / Masato Minami [and others] -- Life-time reproductive success of female sika deer on Kinkazan Island, northern Japan / Masato Minami [and others] -- Reproduction of female sika deer in western Japan / Toru Koizumi [and others] -- Sika deer in Nara Park : unique human-wildlife relations / Harumi Torii and Shirow Tatsuzawa -- A 20-year history of sika deer management in the Mt. Goyo area, northern Honshu / Seiki Takatsuki -- Survival patterns of male and female sika deer on Kinkazan Island, northern Japan / Masato Minami, Nobumasa Ohnishi, and Seiki Takatsuki -- Sika deer in an evergreen broad-leaved forest zone on the Boso Peninsula, Japan / Masahiko Asada and Keiji Ochiai -- Sika deer population irruptions and their management on Hokkaido Island, Japan / Hiroyuki Uno, Koichi Kaji, and Katsumi Tamada -- Irruptive behavior of sika deer / Koichi Kaji [and others] -- The management of sika deer populations in Hyogo Prefecture, Japan / Hiroshi Sakata, Shin-ichiro Hamasaki, and Hiromune Mitsuhashi -- Management strategy of sika deer based on sensitivity analysis / Shingo Miura and Kunihiko Tokida -- Sika deer in Russia / Vladimir V. Aramilev -- Sika deer distribution changes at the northern extent of their range in the Sikhote-Alin Mountains of the Russian Far East / Inna V. Voloshina and Alexander I. Myslenkov -- Sika deer in mainland China / Dale R. McCullough, Zhi-Gang Jiang, and Chun-Wang Li -- Sika deer in Korea and Vietnam / Dale R. McCullough -- Sika deer in Taiwan / Dale R. McCullough -- The present status of the re-introduced sika deer in Kenting National Park, southern Taiwan / Kurtis Jai-Chyi Pei -- Sika deer in continental Europe / Luděk Bartoš -- Sika deer in the British Isles / Graeme M. Swanson and Rory Putman -- Free-ranging and confined sika deer in North America : current status, biology, and management / George A. Feldhamer and Stephen Demarais -- The sika in New Zealand / D. Bruce Banwell Summary 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 Analysis evolutie evolution milieubescherming environmental protection natuurbescherming nature conservation zoology dierecologie animal ecology levenswetenschappen life sciences Biology (General) Biologie (algemeen) Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Sika deer. Sika deer -- Control Wildlife management. Deer SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Zoology -- Mammals. NATURE -- Animals -- Mammals. Sika deer. Sika deer -- Control. Wildlife management. Sciences de la vie. Biomédecine. Sika deer Wildlife management Form Electronic book Author McCullough, Dale R., 1933- Takatsuki, Seiki, 1949- Kaji, Kōichi ISBN 9784431094296 4431094296 4431094288 9784431094289

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