Food water shelter coyote About 10 Since carrying capacity is measured over a long period of time, You need to find the average (mean) of the deer for all of the years. Add them together and divide by the number of years. The food for a deer is plant material so they would be in a forest possibly near a field. They would need to have either a pond, lake or stream running through. They would find shelter in low bushes or high grasses. There would be wide open spaces to roam and reproduce. An herbivore- eating plants There would be more plant life in the forest/ area. If there were natural predators in the area, their population would go down. Negative- each coyote ate a deer