Summer Watering Patterns of Mule Deer in the Great Basin Desert, USA: Implications of Differential Use by Individuals and the Sexes for Management of Water Resources

Table 3

Number of identifiable deer, resightings, visits by unmarked individuals, abundance estimates (𝑁), and mean resighting rates (𝑥 RR) along with standard errors (SE) and 95 percent confidence intervals (L95CI and U95CI for lower and upper 95% confidence intervals) for female mule deer in western Utah, USA, 2007–2011 estimated using program MARK.

Year	Identifiable deer	Number of resightings	Unmarked visits	𝑁	SE	L95CI	U95CI	𝑥 RR	SE	L95CI	U95CI
2007	20	100	69	34	3.60	26	41	4.99	0.83	3.36	6.63
2008	19	84	142	52	6.49	40	65	4.22	0.60	3.05	5.40
2009	25	188	76	35	2.31	30	39	7.75	1.07	5.66	9.85
2010	21	141	45	28	1.51	25	31	6.60	0.76	5.11	8.09
2011	24	85	32	38	4.27	29	46	2.29	0.42	1.47	3.12