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1,134 white-tailed deer studies published since 2016, organized by the questions hunters and land managers actually ask.

Herd Management

Density, sex ratios, doe harvest, recruitment and fawn survival.

136 studies

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Exclusion of Overabundant White-tailed Deer (Odocoileus virginianus) Results in Shifts in Soil Microbial Communities and Abiotic Soil Condition in a Northeastern Deciduous Forest

Enochs, Chong & Kearney · 2022 · The American Midland Naturalist

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Testing secondary sex ratio bias hypotheses in white‐tailed deer in Mississippi, USA

Dentinger et al. · 2024 · Ecology and Evolution

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Factors Affecting the Sex Ratio of White-tailed Deer (Odocoileus virginianus) Fetuses in Arkansas

Garrie & Meeker · 2022 · Journal of the Arkansas Academy of Science

Rut & Breeding Herd Management

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New ecological interaction: Herbivory of Japanese knotweed by White-tailed Deer

Kirby, Turner & Malinowski · 2025 · Food Webs

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Population density of White-tailed deer in a protected area of the Ecuadorian Andes

Rodríguez-Noroña et al. · 2026 · Therya

Nutrition & Food Plots Herd Management

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Aspects of White-tailed Deer Ecology and Management: Effects of Imidacloprid and an Evaluation of Management at Great Swamp National Wildlife Refuge

Berheim · 2018 · Open PRAIRIE (South Dakota State University)

Disease & Health Rut & Breeding Herd Management

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Climate Influences on White-Tailed Deer and Black-Capped Chickadee Densities in the Northeastern United States

R · 2025 · University of New Hampshire Scholars Repository (University of New Hampshire at Manchester)

Weather & Moon Herd Management

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Relationship Between Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) Infection and Pregnancy Probability in Wild Female White-Tailed Deer (Odocoileus virginianus) in Northern Illinois, USA

Mori et al. · 2025 · Pathogens

Habitat & Cover Herd Management

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WHITE-TAILED DEER (Odocoileus virginianus) POPULATION STUDY AT THE "KAXEK" WILDLIFE CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT UNIT, YUCATAN, MEXICO

López-Cobá et al. · 2025 · International Journal of Biological and Natural Sciences

Habitat & Cover Herd Management

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Multi‐scale maternal behavioral responses by white‐tailed deer to coyote predation risk

Muthersbaugh et al. · 2025 · Journal of Wildlife Management

Home Range & Core Area Movement & Activity Nutrition & Food Plots Habitat & Cover Herd Management Predators Technology & Methods

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Evaluating potential altered harvest and predator management strategies to increase white‐tailed deer population growth in the Southeastern United States

Muthersbaugh et al. · 2025 · Journal of Wildlife Management

Habitat & Cover Hunting Pressure Herd Management Predators

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Translocating captive female white-tailed deer

Elliott et al. · 2022 · Wildlife Research

Genetics Antlers & Age Herd Management

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Estimating white‐tailed deer density in West Virginia, USA, from camera traps and telemetry data

Pesi et al. · 2026 · Journal of Wildlife Management

Home Range & Core Area Herd Management Technology & Methods

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Individual and interactive effects of white-tailed deer and woody invasive plants on native tree seedlings in an early successional forest

Hay & Gorchov · 2026 · New Forests

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An Evaluation of Deer and Pronghorn Surveys in South Dakota

Cudmore · 2017 · Open PRAIRIE (South Dakota State University)

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Testing for a wildlife reservoir of divergent SARS-CoV-2 in white-tailed deer

Crawshaw et al. · 2026 · FACETS

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