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  title info:
    title: Sika Deer
    sub title: Biology and Management of Native and Introduced Populations
  name:
    name part: McCullough, Dale R.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Takatsuki, Seiki.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Kaji, Koichi.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ja
    date issued: 2009
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XX, 666 p. 274 illus., 50 illus. in color. online resource.
  abstract: 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.
  table of contents: Basic Biology -- Fossil Record of Sika Deer in Japan -- Two Genetically Distinct Lineages of the Japanese Sika Deer Based on Mitochondrial Control Regions -- Evolutionary Significance of Admixture and Fragmentation of Sika Deer Populations in Japan -- Nutritional Physiology of Wild and Domesticated Japanese Sika Deer -- Endocrinology of Sika Deer -- Reproduction of Female Sika Deer in Japan, with Special Reference to Kinkazan Island, Northern Japan -- Food and Habitat Relations -- Food Habits of Sika Deer on Kinkazan Island, Northern Japan with Reference to Local Variations, Size Effects, and Comparison with the Main Island -- Plants and Plant Communities on Kinkazan Island, Northern Japan, in Relation to Sika Deer Herbivory -- Productivity and Foraging Efficiency of the Short-Grass (Zoysia japonica) Community for Sika Deer -- Home Range, Habitat Selection, and Food Habits of the Sika Deer Using the Short-Grass Community on Kinkazan Island, Northern Japan -- Shift to Litterfall as Year-Round Forage for Sika Deer after a Population Crash -- The Dynamics of Forest Stands Affected by Sika Deer on Nakanoshima Island—Change of Size Structure Similar to the Thinning Effect -- Biology of Sika Deer in Hyogo: Characteristics of Reproduction, Food Habits, Growth, and Condition -- Bark-Stripping Preference of Sika Deer and Its Seasonality on Mt. Ohdaigahara, Central Japan -- North-South Variations in Sika Deer Ecology as a Forest-Dwelling Cervid -- Geographical Variations in Food Habits of Sika Deer: The Northern Grazer vs. the Southern Browser -- What Is “Natural” Vegetation? A Reconsideration of Herbivory by Wild Ungulates -- Behavior: Migration and Breeding Systems -- Seasonal Migration of Sika Deer on Hokkaido Island, Japan -- Migratory and Sedentary Behavior Patterns of Sika Deer in Honshu and Kyushu, Japan -- Variation in Mating Behavior of Sika Deer: Mating Behavior of Sika Deer on Nozaki Island -- Reproductive Ecology of Sika Deer on Kinkazan Island, Northern Japan: Re…
  note: edited by Dale R. McCullough, Seiki Takatsuki, Koichi Kaji.
  subject:
    topic: Life sciences
  subject:
    topic: Animal ecology
  subject:
    topic: Conservation biology
  subject:
    topic: Ecology
  subject:
    topic: Evolutionary biology
  subject:
    topic: Zoology
  subject:
    topic: Life Sciences
  subject:
    topic: Animal Ecology
  subject:
    topic: Conservation Biology/Ecology
  subject:
    topic: Evolutionary Biology
  subject:
    topic: Zoology
  classification: QH540-549.5
  classification: 591.7
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  identifier: 9784431094296
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-09429-6
  record info:
    record creation date: 100301
    record change date: 20151125191119.0
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