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Cover & Edge: Landscape Factors Affecting Neonatal White-tailed Deer Survival Across Behavioral Periods

White-tailed deer are widespread and heavily harvested, making them ecologically and socially important species. Thus, it’s vital for managers to understand how to conserve their populations. White-tailed deer fawn survival influences the health and dynamics of deer populations. This research aims to clarify findings in the literature by exploring the temporal variance in white-tailed deer fawn survival relative to known behavioral stages and landscape composition using a dataset collected across study sites in Missouri, USA. This research addresses a knowledge gap in white-tailed deer ecology, contributing to scientific understanding and informing practical conservation. This project collaborates with the Missouri Department of Conservation and the Boone and Crockett Club. Our findings will directly guide conservation efforts both locally and nationally. We anticipate that our analytical methods may be adapted for other survival analyses. To facilitate this, our code and data will be publicly accessible on the FigShare repository for wider benefit.

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