Direct and indirect effects of white-tailed deer in forest ecosystems
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- Restoring forest herb communities through landscape-level deer herd reductions: Is recovery limited by legacy effects? (2010, background): “…that long-term overbrowsing decreases plant size, growth, survival, and fecundity; shifts under- story plant relative abundances; alters species diversity, and facilitates exotic plant invasions (Russell et al., 2001; Rooney and Waller, 2003; Côte et al., 2004; Eschtruth and Battles, 2009).”
- Introduced deer reduce native plant cover and facilitate invasion of non-native tree species: evidence for invasional meltdown (2010, neutral): “while studies exploring subtler or indirect effects of deer are less common (Gill and Beardall 2001; Rooney and Waller 2003 ).”
- Multiple interacting ecosystem drivers: toward an encompassing hypothesis of oak forest dynamics across eastern North America (2011, background): “…most important of these species is the white-tailed deer Odocoileus virginianus, which has been identified as a keystone herbivore in eastern forests due to its capacity to influence forest regeneration (Stromayer and Warren 1997, Waller and Alverson 1997, Rooney and Waller 2003, Cote et al. 2004).”
- Avifaunal disarray due to a single despotic species (2013, background): “…in species diversity caused by the cascading effects of humans introducing non-native predators into island ecosystems (Holdaway, 1999; Short et al., 2002; O’Dowd et al., 2003) or extirpation of keystone predators (Wilcove, 1985; Crooks & Soule, 1999; Rooney & Waller, 2003) are well documented.”
- Linking wolves to willows via risk-sensitive foraging by ungulates in the northern Yellowstone ecosystem (2006, background): “Thus, vegetation communities can be profoundly altered (by ungulates) when large carnivores are removed from ecosystems (Waller and Alverson, 1997; White et al., 1998; Ripple and Larsen, 2000; Russell et al., 2001; Beschta, 2003, 2005; Rooney and Waller, 2003).”
- Deer and Invasive Plant Species Suppress Forest Herbaceous Communities and Canopy Tree Regeneration (2011, background): “Fourth, overbrowsing has been shown to change soil properties and fauna, causing long-term alterations to forest ecosystem processes (Wardle et al. 2001; Coomes et al. 2003; Rooney and Waller 2003).”
- Ranking temperate woody species along a gradient of browsing by deer. (2009, background): “This result contrasts with managers’ concerns about the regeneration of forest stands (Hees et al., 1996; Motta, 1996; Rooney and Waller, 2003), particularly for oak which has been proposed as a new indicator of game-forest equilibrium (Chevrier et al.”
- Population growth rate of a common understory herb decreases non-linearly across a gradient of deer herbivory (2009, background): “…deer densities have been shown to reduce overall plant biomass, shift community composition from more to less palatable plant species, and dramatically reduce overall plant biodiversity (Russell et al. 2001, Rooney and Waller 2003, Côté et al. 2004, Wiegmann and Waller 2006, Royo and Carson 2006).”
- Biotic indirect effects: a neglected concept in invasion biology (2006, background): “…& Marquis, 2000; Veech, 2000; Adler et al., 2001; Morris, 2002; Webster & Almany, 2002; LoGuidice, 2003; Lombadero et al., 2003; Rand, 2003; Rooney & Waller, 2003; Morris et al., 2004), but until recently few empirical studies had investigated such interactions in the context of invasion…”
- Density‐related effects of deer browsing on the regeneration dynamics of boreal forests (2007, neutral): “The impact of selective browsing includes direct killing of seedlings of preferred species, the reduction of seedling growth and thus inhibition of the regeneration process (Risenhoover & Maass 1987; Rooney & Waller 2003 ), or the creation of an apparent competitive advantage for plant species that”
- Impacts of white-tailed deer on regional patterns of forest tree recruitment (2016, background): “In the Upper Midwest, the density and growth of several slow-growing, palatable woody species like Tsuga canadensis, Betula alleghaniensis, and Thuja occidentalis have declined sharply in regions with abundant deer (Rooney & Waller 2003; Rooney 2001; Waller & Alverson 1997).”
- Long-term effects of deer browsing: Composition, structure and productivity in a northeastern Minnesota old-growth forest (2012, background): “Regionally, in similar plant communities, deer browsing pressure has favored grasses and sedges over forbs (Rooney and Waller, 2003; Mudrak et al., 2009).”