Response of a herbivore community to increased food quality and quantity: an experiment with nitrogen fertilizer in a boreal forest

By J. P. Ball, K. Danell, P. Sunesson. 2000

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Subfields: Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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In Ecology

1. G. Ericsson
2. M. Schädler
3. Nathalie Pettorelli
4. B. Jędrzejewska
5. L. Sönnichsen
6. D. Bonte
7. A. Eskelinen

In Nature and Landscape Conservation

1. M. Schädler
2. Nathalie Pettorelli
3. B. Jędrzejewska
4. J. P. Ball
5. M. Löf
6. K. Danell
7. D. Bonte
8. F. Götmark

Citations in the corpus

• Normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) as a predictor of forage availability for ungulates in forest and field habitats (2013, background): “Yet herbivores base foraging decisions on a balance between quantity and quality (MacArthur and Pianka 1966; Ball et al. 2000).”
• Plant responses to fertilization and exclusion of grazers on an arctic tundra heath (2002, background): “In a fertilization experiment using 0.25-ha areas, Ball et al. (2000) found that vertebrate herbivores preferred unfertilized control plots near fertilized plots to distant control plots.”
• The Role of Moose as a Disturbance Factor in Managed Boreal Forests (2002, background): “A largescale fi eld experiment (Ball et al. 2000) where young pine forests were treated with calciumammonium-nitrate (200 kg nitrogen ha–1) showed that moose, as well as many other animal species, selected the fertilized plots.”
• Identification and Creation of Optimum Habitat Conditions for Livestock (2005, background): “Ball et al. (2000) found that moose preferred to graze sites in a boreal forest that were fertilized over sites that were not fertilized, and the authors suggested that fertilization might be a tool for modifying where moose and other herbivores graze.”
• Shrubs protect oak seedlings against ungulate browsing in temperate broadleaved forests of conservation interest: A field experiment (2012, background): “Large herbivores generally prefer vigorous tree seedlings with high nutritional values or high growth rates over less vigorous tree seedlings (Ball et al., 2000; Schindler et al., 2003).”
• Dual benefit from a belowground symbiosis: nitrogen fixing rhizobia promote growth and defense against a specialist herbivore in a cyanogenic plant (2011, background): “With respect to higher trophic levels, the outcome of increased levels of amino acids and proteins should differ from the effects of enhanced concentrations of toxic nitrogen containing metabolites such as alkaloids or cyanogenic glycosides (Johnson and Bentley 1991; Ball et al. 2000; Awmack and Lea”
• Foraging and movement paths of female reindeer: insights from fractal analysis, correlated random walks, and Lévy flights (2002, background): “1999), and to a lesser extent for large herbivores (Etzenhouser et al. 1998; Ball et al. 2000).”