Long-term response of spring flora to chronic herbivory and deer exclusion in Great Smoky Mountains National Park, USA

By C. Webster, M. A. Jenkins, J. Rock. 2005

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Subfields: Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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In Ecology

1. T. Rooney
2. A. Royo
3. D. Waller
4. Steeve D. Côté
5. J. Huot
6. Shannon M. Wiegmann
7. D. Decalesta
8. W. Carson

In Nature and Landscape Conservation

1. T. Rooney
2. A. Royo
3. D. Waller
4. J. Huot
5. Steeve D. Côté
6. Todd E. Ristau
7. Shannon M. Wiegmann
8. D. Decalesta

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• Chronic over browsing and biodiversity collapse in a forest understory in Pennsylvania: Results from a 60 year-old deer exclusion plot (2011, background): “…and Velland 2005) and consequently understory herbs are prone to legacy effects where over browsing leads to low diversity herb and shrub communities that remain depauperate even if ungulate populations are brought under control (Banta et al. 2005, Webster et al. 2005, de la Cretaz and Kelty 1999).”
• Long term effects of deer browsing and trampling on the vegetation of peatlands (2006, background): “All rights reserved itut de recherche en biolo 06. montreal.qc.ca (S. Pellerin et al., 2004; Webster et al., 2005).”
• Fifty years of change in northern upland forest understories: Identity and traits of “winner” and “loser” plant species (2006, background): “Populations of many understory herbs appear slow to recover from these impacts (Balgooyen andWaller, 1995; Webster et al., 2005; D. Flaspohler, pers. commun.).”
• Restoring forest herb communities through landscape-level deer herd reductions: Is recovery limited by legacy effects? (2010, background): “…impacts of overbrowsing have been documented in a number of studies including both deer exclosure and enclosure experiments (Horsley et al., 2003; Webster et al., 2005; Tremblay et al., 2006), comparisons of plant communities across areas of varying ungulate density (Balgooyen and Waller, 1995;…”
• High white-tailed deer densities benefit graminoids and contribute to biotic homogenization of forest ground-layer vegetation (2009, background): “…a source of new plants via seed dispersal (Myers et al. 2004), can depress or eliminate palatable species (Potvin et al. 2003; Stockton et al. 2005; Webster et al. 2005), and favor the population growth of browse-tolerant and unpalatable species (Augustine and McNaughton 1998), they have the…”