Top down or bottom up? Comparing the impacts of introduced arboreal possums and ‘terrestrial’ ruminants on native forests in New Zealand
By G. Nugent, W. Fraser, P. Sweetapple. 2001
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Subfields: Ecology, Global and Planetary Change
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- A natural experiment on the impact of overabundant deer on songbird populations (2005, unknown): “Elsewhere, and particularly in several countries from the southern hemisphere, high deer abundance resulted from the introduction of non-native deer species (Veblen et al., 1989; Bouchet et al., 1995; Nugent et al., 2001; Golumbia et al., in press).”
- Effects of biological invasions on forest carbon sequestration (2010, background): “There is some evidence that top predators, by affecting densities of their prey, can exert important indirect effects on both primary producers and decomposers (Letourneau & Dyer, 1998; Croll et al., 2005; Wardle et al., 2005).”
- Impacts of introduced deer and extinct moa on New Zealand ecosystems (2010, background): “…have been demonstrated for sympatric red and sika deer in the central North Island: sika deer ate more beech (Nothofagus spp.) and ferns than did red deer (Nugent et al. 2001a), and the rumen morphology of sika appears better for digesting fibrous foliage than that of red deer (Fraser 1996).”
- Predation and other factors currently limiting New Zealand forest birds. (2010, background): “Conversely, Nugent et al. (2001) suggested that possums are probably unable to utilise “much of the ephemeral flower and fruit crops during the few weeks that such foods are typically available”.”
- Management of introduced mammals in New Zealand (2003, methodology): “Substantial numbers of feral pigs were killed and sold each year, mostly on the black market (McIlroy 2001), and there are small harvests of chamois and thar for game meat (Nugent et al. 2001a; Parkes in press).”
- The concept of overgrazing and its role in management of large herbivores (2006, background): “Also famous are examples from Australia (Caughley et al. 1997) and New Zealand (Nugent et al. 2001, Coomes et al. 2003).”
- Multiple Effects of Introduced Mammalian Herbivores in a Temperate Forest (2002, background): “However, deer do impede the regeneration of several tree species accompanying Nothofagus (Allen et al. 1984), which could result in a switch in tree species relative abundances, favoring the most browse-resistant species (Nugent et al. 2001).”
- Diet and diet preferences of introduced ungulates (Order: Artiodactyla) in New Zealand (2002, background): “It is widely thought that the effects of ungulates on individual vascular plant populations are predictable based on the ungulate's preference for that species (e.g., Wardle 1984; Challies 1990; Nugent et al. 2001); preferred species are removed before avoided species.”
- Ecosystem and competition impacts of introduced deer (2008, unknown): “However, non-linear relationships between herbivore density and vegetation impacts, combined with the efficiency of ruminants as foliavores, mean some changes in the composition of susceptible forest types continue even at low deer densities (e.g. 6 per km 2 ) (Nugent et al. 2001).”
- Density‐related effects of deer browsing on the regeneration dynamics of boreal forests (2007, unknown): “Inversely, we could expect a slow recovery when deer density is reduced from high to intermediate levels followed by an exponential increase at lower densities ( Nugent et al . 2001; Schmitz & Sinclair 1997).”
- Ship rat demography and diet following possum control in a mixed podocarp-hardwood forest. (2007, background): “Rat abundance was initially indexed incidentally from lure disturbance rates at cyanide-paste baits and possum leghold traps set along transects at various times between 1990 and 2000 as part of a study of possum and deer impacts (Nugent et al. 2001).”