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Sika Deer

Biology and Management of Native and Introduced Populations

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Editors:
  1. Dale R. McCullough

    1. Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management and Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, Berkeley, USA

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  2. Seiki Takatsuki

    1. Laboratory of Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, Azabu University, Kanagawa, Japan

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  3. Koichi Kaji

    1. Department of Ecoregion Science Laboratory of Wildlife Conservation, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Tokyo, Japan

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Table of contents (43 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xx
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  2. Basic Biology

    1. Introduction

      • Dale R. McCullough
      Pages 1-8

    2. Fossil Record of Sika Deer in Japan

      • Yoshinari Kawamura
      Pages 11-25

    3. Two Genetically Distinct Lineages of the Japanese Sika Deer Based on Mitochondrial Control Regions

      • Junco Nagata
      Pages 27-41

    4. Evolutionary Significance of Admixture and Fragmentation of Sika Deer Populations in Japan

      • Hidetoshi B. Tamate
      Pages 43-59

    5. Nutritional Physiology of Wild and Domesticated Japanese Sika Deer

      • Takayoshi Masuko, Kousaku Souma
      Pages 61-82

    6. Endocrinology of Sika Deer

      • Kiyoshi Yamauchi, Yukiko Matsuura
      Pages 83-99

    7. Reproduction of Female Sika Deer in Japan, with Special Reference to Kinkazan Island, Northern Japan

      • Nobumasa Ohnishi, Masato Minami, Rie Nishiya, Kotoyo Yamada, Hiroyuki Nishizuka, Hiroshi Higuchi et al.
      Pages 101-110

  3. Food and Habitat Relations

    1. 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, U. K. G. K. Padmalal
      Pages 113-123

    2. Plants and Plant Communities on Kinkazan Island, Northern Japan, in Relation to Sika Deer Herbivory

      • Seiki Takatsuki, Takehiko Y. Ito
      Pages 125-143

    3. Productivity and Foraging Efficiency of the Short-Grass (Zoysia japonica) Community for Sika Deer

      • Takehiko Y. Ito, Mariko Shimoda, Seiki Takatsuki
      Pages 145-157

    4. Home Range, Habitat Selection, and Food Habits of the Sika Deer Using the Short-Grass Community on Kinkazan Island, Northern Japan

      • Takehiko Y. Ito, Seiki Takatsuki
      Pages 159-170

    5. Shift to Litterfall as Year-Round Forage for Sika Deer after a Population Crash

      • Masami Miyaki, Koichi Kaji
      Pages 171-180

    6. The Dynamics of Forest Stands Affected by Sika Deer on Nakanoshima Island—Change of Size Structure Similar to the Thinning Effect

      • Masami Miyaki, Koichi Kaji
      Pages 181-191

    7. Biology of Sika Deer in Hyogo: Characteristics of Reproduction, Food Habits, Growth, and Condition

      • Mayumi Yokoyama
      Pages 193-205

    8. Bark-Stripping Preference of Sika Deer and Its Seasonality on Mt. Ohdaigahara, Central Japan

      • Masaki Ando, Ei'ichi Shibata
      Pages 207-216

    9. North-South Variations in Sika Deer Ecology as a Forest-Dwelling Cervid

      • Seiki Takatsuki
      Pages 217-230

    10. Geographical Variations in Food Habits of Sika Deer: The Northern Grazer vs. the Southern Browser

      • Seiki Takatsuki
      Pages 231-237

    11. What Is “Natural” Vegetation? A Reconsideration of Herbivory by Wild Ungulates

      • Seiki Takatsuki
      Pages 239-247

  4. Behavior: Migration and Breeding Systems

    1. Seasonal Migration of Sika Deer on Hokkaido Island, Japan

      • Hiromasa Igota, Mayumi Sakuragi, Hiroyuki Uno
      Pages 251-272
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About this book

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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management and Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, Berkeley, USA

    Dale R. McCullough

  • Laboratory of Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, Azabu University, Kanagawa, Japan

    Seiki Takatsuki

  • Department of Ecoregion Science Laboratory of Wildlife Conservation, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Tokyo, Japan

    Koichi Kaji

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Sika Deer

  • Book Subtitle: Biology and Management of Native and Introduced Populations

  • Editors: Dale R. McCullough, Seiki Takatsuki, Koichi Kaji

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-09429-6

  • Publisher: Springer Tokyo

  • eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Tokyo 2009

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-4-431-09428-9Published: 23 December 2008

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-4-431-99802-0Published: 21 October 2010

  • eBook ISBN: 978-4-431-09429-6Published: 05 December 2008

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XX, 666

  • Number of Illustrations: 224 b/w illustrations, 50 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Animal Ecology, Conservation Biology/Ecology, Evolutionary Biology, Zoology

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