ABSTRACT
White-tailed deer are a product of their environment. The North American environment has shaped the species on an evolutionary timescale while individual deer are inuenced by their surroundings during their lifetime. One of the fundamental interactions between a deer and its environment is through nutrition, the process by which a deer consumes portions of its environment and uses the ingested chemicals and energy for its own maintenance, growth, and reproduction. Because nutrition affects survival, growth, and reproduction, research has sought to understand, and management to inuence, deer nutrition.
