Diurnal activity and habitat associations of White-tailed deer in tallgrass prairie of eastern Kansas

摘要: Abstract Diurnal and seasonal patterns of activity habitat associations white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) were assessed in a mosaic grassland woodland habitats on the Konza Prairie Biological Station, Kansas. We recorded seen during daylight hours summer, autumn winter periods from June 1997 through February 1998. Overall, diurnal increased summer to was largely crepuscular (i.e., early morning late evening). Deer observed primarily lower uplands winter, lowlands autumn. At coarse scale (6.25 ha), selected areas that had woody vegetation avoided those dominated by grassy vegetation. In contrast, at fine scale, groups most often foraging immediate vicinity vegetation, rather than or