Effects of White-tailed Deer (Odocoileus virginianus) on Plants, Plant Populations and Communities: A Review

By Leland Russell, David Zippin, N. Fowler. 2001

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Subfields: Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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In Ecology

1. W. Ripple
2. R. Beschta
3. T. Rooney
4. A. Royo
5. Steeve D. Côté
6. J. Tremblay
7. S. Kalisz
8. J. Huot

In Nature and Landscape Conservation

1. R. Beschta
2. W. Ripple
3. A. Royo
4. J. Tremblay
5. T. Rooney
6. Steeve D. Côté
7. David A. Coomes
8. J. Huot

Citations in the corpus

• Restoring forest herb communities through landscape-level deer herd reductions: Is recovery limited by legacy effects? (2010, background): “Vegetation dynamics in response to deer herd reductions may be masked by the long-term effects of overbrowsing since contemporary plant communities often represent the cumulative effects of decades of herbivory (Russell et al., 2001).”
• Long term effects of deer browsing and trampling on the vegetation of peatlands (2006, background): “In temperate forests of northeastern North America, heavy browsing pressure by white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) has limited the regeneration of many sensitive tree species and has disturbed the composition of understory communities (Cornett et al., 2000; Russell et al., 2001).”
• WHITE‐TAILED DEER IMPACT ON THE VEGETATION DYNAMICS OF A NORTHERN HARDWOOD FOREST (2003, background): “…that they prefer results in reduced species richness/diversity and altered species composition dominated by unpreferred and browse-resilient species (Anderson and Loucks 1979, Frelich and Lorimer 1985, Anderson and Katz 1993, Hobbs 1996, Alverson and Waller 1997, Healy 1997, Russell et al. 2001).”
• 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).”
• Do deer and shrubs override canopy gap size effects on growth and survival of yellow birch, northern red oak, eastern white pine, and eastern hemlock seedlings? (2012, background): “…deer (Odocoileus virginianus) are regarded as keystone herbivores in forest ecosystems affecting composition, succession, and function (see reviews Russell et al., 2001; Cote et al., 2004), and some research has shown that tree growth and survival, based on shade tolerance rankings, were obscured…”
• Factors Preventing the Recovery of New Zealand Forests Following Control of Invasive Deer (2003, result): “We describe the effects of deer in a non-native setting with an evolutionarily distinct flora, providing a contrast with many studies done within their native ranges (e.g., Gill 1992 a, 1992 b ; Russell et al. 2001).”
• Ecological Impacts of Deer Overabundance (2004, background): “Deer densities above 10/km2 are now common throughout temperate zones (Fuller & Gill 2001, Russell et al. 2001).”
• Introduced deer reduce native plant cover and facilitate invasion of non-native tree species: evidence for invasional meltdown (2010, unknown): “For young seedlings factors other than browsing strongly influence survival, such as light regime, microtopography, and competition, so the true effect of browsing may be masked (Gill 1992; Gill and Beardall 2001; Rooney 2001; Russell et al. 2001).”
• Manipulating ungulate herbivory in temperate and boreal forests: effects on vegetation and invertebrates. A systematic review (2018, background): “Another common belief is that impacts of ungulates depend on their abundance, and some recent syntheses focused on finding threshold densities of animals for predicting or preventing ‘damage’ to the forest [13, 62].”
• THE EFFECTS OF HERBIVORY AND POLLEN LIMITATION ON A DECLINING POPULATION OF TRILLIUM GRANDIFLORUM (2004, background): “…of T. grandiflorum varies across its range from self-compatible to self-incompatible (Broyles et al. 1997, Kalisz et al. 1999, Irwin 2000, 2001, Sage et al. 2001), at my study site, T. grandiflorum is self-incompatible, and therefore plants cannot produce seeds without receiving outcrossed…”
• Ranking temperate woody species along a gradient of browsing by deer. (2009, background): “Plant-ungulate interactions have been identified as keyprocesses in ecosystem functioning and particularly in vegetation dynamics (Waller and Alverson, 1997; Rooney, 2001; Russell et al., 2001).”