社頂地區台灣梅花鹿之食性初探

A Preliminary Study on Food Habit of Formosan Sika Deer (Cervus nippon taiouanus)

胡正恆(Cheng-Heng Hu) ； 王穎(Ying Wang)

《師大生物學報》 29卷1期 (1994/06) Pp. 11-20

https://doi.org/10.29812/BBNTNU.199406.0002

摘要

Food habit study on Formosan Sika deer (Cervus nippon taiouanus) was conducted at Sheting area, Kenting national park in Taiwan from March, 1993 to Feburary, 1994. One hundred and fifty-one food plants from 62 families were recorded including 5 species of pteridophyte, 116 species of dicotyledon and 30 species of monocotyledon. Among them Euphorbiaceae and Gramineae were the most dominant families. Different plant parts were also used by deer. They were as fallows according to their occurrance from the most frequent use to the least: leaves, stems, flowers, fruits, fallen leaves and tree barks. Ten plant species having 4 or more parts used by deer were Leucaena glauca (L .) Benth., Macaranga tanarius (L. ) Muell. -Arg., Broussonetia papyrifera (L.) L'Herit. ex Vent., Morus australis Poir., Ipomoea sp., Passiflora suberosa L., Merremia gemella (Burm. f.) Hall. f., Hypoestes cumingiana Benth. & Hook., Ophiopogon formosanum Ohwi and Cyperus alternifolius L. subsp. flabelliformis (Rottb.) Kukenthal. Two life forms could be identified among 151 species. That deer fed proportionally more woody species than that of herbaceous species (Chi-square, p＜0. 05) indicated that deer at Sheting area tended to be a browser.

關鍵字

臺灣梅花鹿 ； 草食獸 ； 食性 ； 鹿食植物

並列摘要

Food habit study on Formosan Sika deer (Cervus nippon taiouanus) was conducted at Sheting area, Kenting national park in Taiwan from March, 1993 to Feburary, 1994. One hundred and fifty-one food plants from 62 families were recorded including 5 species of pteridophyte, 116 species of dicotyledon and 30 species of monocotyledon. Among them Euphorbiaceae and Gramineae were the most dominant families. Different plant parts were also used by deer. They were as fallows according to their occurrance from the most frequent use to the least: leaves, stems, flowers, fruits, fallen leaves and tree barks. Ten plant species having 4 or more parts used by deer were Leucaena glauca (L .) Benth., Macaranga tanarius (L. ) Muell. -Arg., Broussonetia papyrifera (L.) L'Herit. ex Vent., Morus australis Poir., Ipomoea sp., Passiflora suberosa L., Merremia gemella (Burm. f.) Hall. f., Hypoestes cumingiana Benth. & Hook., Ophiopogon formosanum Ohwi and Cyperus alternifolius L. subsp. flabelliformis (Rottb.) Kukenthal. Two life forms could be identified among 151 species. That deer fed proportionally more woody species than that of herbaceous species (Chi-square, p＜0. 05) indicated that deer at Sheting area tended to be a browser.

並列關鍵字

Cervus nippon ； Formosan Sika Deer ； herbivores ； food habits ； food plants