Deer Facilitate Invasive Plant Success in a Pennsylvania Forest Understory

By T. Knight, J. Dunn, Lisa A. Smith, Joanne E. Davis, S. Kalisz. 2009

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Subfields: Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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Effects of abundant white-tailed deer on vegetation, animals, mycorrhizal fungi, and soils (2014, background): “…Rooney and Waller, 2003), reduce growth and reproduction of woodland herbs (Webster et al., 2005; Heckel et al., 2010), cause local extirpations of herbaceous species (Augustine and Frelich, 1998; Knight et al., 2009a), and decrease overall vegetation density (Rooney, 2009; Martin et al., 2010).”
Management of invasive plants through ecological resistance (2017, background): “For example, the overabundance of deer in North America facilitates the success of invasive Alliaria petiolata andMicrostegus vimineum (Knight et al. 2009).”
Interactions between white-tailed deer density and the composition of forest understories in the northern United States (2017, background): “The overabundance of deer can facilitate the presence and abundance of invasive plant species through preferential browsing of native herbs (Knight et al., 2009) and act as an important seed dispersal agent for exotic plant species (Williams and Ward, 2006).”
Conserving Pollinators in North American Forests: A Review (2016, background): “Heavy grazing can shift plant communities to less palatable and often exotic species (Vavra et al. 2007; Knight et al. 2009), with the potential to negatively impact pollinator communities.”
Invasive species: “back-seat drivers” of ecosystem change? (2012, unknown): “The ability of Microstegium vimineum to act as a passenger of disturbance associated with roads, logging and deer over-population is important to its spread in many natural areas (Barden 1987; Cole and Weltzin 2004; Knight et al. 2009; Rauschert et al. 2010).”
Soil microbial communities alter allelopathic competition between Alliaria petiolata and a native species (2010, background): “petiolata’s competitive success likely stems from multiple sources, including reduced herbivory (especially from white tailed deer, (Knight et al. 2009), an unusual phenology that allows it to resume active growth earlier than most native understory species (Myers and Anderson 2003; Rodgers et al.”
Hunting for fear: innovating management of human–wildlife conflicts (2013, background): “by non-native plants (Knight et al. 2009).”