Abstract: This paper studied the selection of winter bed-sites by Capreolus capreolus in the low mountain areas of southern Xiaoxing’anling Mountains, Northeast China. Both Jocabs’ and resources selection functions revealed that C. capreolus preferred the coniferous and broad-leaved mixed forest on sunny slope, referring with shrub height, ground cover and snow depth in day-time, and the coniferous and broad-leaved mixed forest and broad-leaved mixed forest on shady slope, considering arbor crown breadth and ground cover in nighttime. There were significant differences in the vegetation type, slope direction, crown breadth, shrub height, ground covers of <1 m and 1-2.5 m, hiding degree, and length and width of the winter bed-sites in daytime and nighttime. Compared with nighttime, the winter bed-site in daytime preferred by C. capreolus had the characteristics of larger arbor crown breadth, lower shrub height, denser ground cover, more concealment, and less length and width.

Key words: Cotton field, Herbicide, Arthropod community, Diversity index