Responses of woodland birds to increasing numbers of deer: a review of evidence and mechanisms

By REBECCA J. Fuller. 2001

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Subfields: Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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In Ecology

1. T. Rooney
2. D. Waller
3. REBECCA J. Fuller
4. R. Gill
5. M. Hayward
6. P. A. Cotton
7. P. Green
8. M. Apollonio

In Nature and Landscape Conservation

1. T. Rooney
2. D. Waller
3. REBECCA J. Fuller
4. R. Gill
5. M. Hayward
6. P. Green
7. P. Haswell
8. J. Kusak

Citations in the corpus

• Effects of hunting with hounds on a non-target species living on the edge of a protected area (2011, background): “The potential impact of large herbivore densities on small mammals (review in Flowerdew and Ellwood, 2001) and on the birds (Fuller, 2001; McShea and Rappole, 1997) is clear and documented in temperate areas.”
• Direct and indirect effects of white-tailed deer in forest ecosystems (2003, background): “By reducing the density of the shrubs and saplings, browsing can also reduce vertical complexity in forest stands (deCalesta, 1994; McShea and Rappole, 2000; Fuller, 2001).”
• Ecological impacts of increasing numbers of deer in British woodland (2001, background): “The numerical responses of many woodland species to deer pressure will be non-linear (Gill and Beardall, 2001; Fuller, 2001; Stewart, 2001; Watkinson et al., 2001).”
• Habitat selection by song thrushes in stable and declining farmland populations (2004, background): “However, the removal of understorey vegetation by increasing deer populations may have reduced the suitability of many lowland woods as nesting and foraging habitats for song thrushes (Fuller 2001).”
• A natural experiment on the impact of overabundant deer on songbird populations (2005, unknown): “Fifteen mammal species were introduced since European colonization (Golumbia et al., in press), of which raccoons (Procyon lotor), red squirrels (Tamiasciurus hudsonicus) and black-tailed deer have colonized a large portion of the archipelago.”
• Ecosystem and competition impacts of introduced deer (2008, unknown): “…this can have cascade effects on biodiversity, including songbird abundance and species composition (McShea and Rappole 2000; Berger et al. 2001; Fuller 2001; Allombert et al. 2005 a ; Gill and Fuller 2007), nest predation rates (Martin and Joron 2003), the abundance and density of…”
• Large carnivore impacts are context-dependent (2017, background): “Wild and domestic herbivores forage and interact with vegetation communities in different ways, with domestic stock often causing greater degadation (Fuller 2001; Hester and Baillie 1998; Hill et al. 1991).”
• High white-tailed deer densities benefit graminoids and contribute to biotic homogenization of forest ground-layer vegetation (2009, background): “Fewer insects and the absence of shrubs and woody seedlings are likely detrimental to most birds that nest or feed in the shrub layer (McShea and Rappole 2000; Fuller 2001; Allombert et al. 2005).”
• Identifying threshold densities for wild deer in the UK above which negative impacts may occur (2011, background): “Gill and Morgan’s (2010) review suggests a somewhat higher tolerable density than those we have considered to date – perhaps because of the higher productivity of lowland woodlands – indicating that regeneration is likely to be inhibited at deer densities above 14km-2.”