Deer impacts on forest ecosystems: a North American perspective

By T. Rooney. 2001

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Subfields: Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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Restoration of a Forest Understory After the Removal of an Invasive Shrub, Amur Honeysuckle (Lonicera maackii) (2004, background): “Mortality due to browsing was only 3.1% at this site; however, it is widely known that deer are keystone herbivores and can have profound impacts on forest composition (Rooney 2001).”
Steering the impacts of ungulates on temperate forests (2003, background): “Relationships between levels of hunting pressure, deer densities and ungulate damage in forests have often been discussed in the literature (e.g. Mayer & Ott 1991; Ammer 1996; Rooney 2001).”
Large predators and trophic cascades in terrestrial ecosystems of the western United States (2009, result): “Such a conclusion is further supported by research in the eastern US where increased deer populations, in the absence of large predators, are profoundly affecting the structure of deciduous forests (Rooney, 2001).”
The eradication of balsam fir stands by white-tailed deer on Anticosti Island, Québec: A 150-year process (2003, background): “White-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) populations in particular have increased in North America and now might have detrimental effects on whole forest ecosystems (McShea & Rappole, 1997; Waller & Alverson, 1997; Rooney, 2001).”
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).”
Long-term response of spring flora to chronic herbivory and deer exclusion in Great Smoky Mountains National Park, USA (2005, background): “In recent years, white-tailed deer populations throughout the eastern United States have reached unprecedented levels (Alverson et al., 1988; Rooney, 2001), often twice those of pre-settlement populations under which modern plant communities developed (Doepker et al.”
Ecological impacts of increasing numbers of deer in British woodland (2001, background): “Within largely wooded landscapes, there are reasons for thinking that the densities of deer are as high or higher than they were before human agricultural activities began to affect the landscape (Rooney, 2001).”
Manipulating ungulate herbivory in temperate and boreal forests: effects on vegetation and invertebrates. A systematic review (2018, background): “‘Overabundance’ of native wild herbivores has frequently been identified as a major challenge for forest regeneration and biodiversity conservation [1, 3, 5, 19], and livestock grazing too is often perceived as being in conflict with the aims of both silviculture and forest conservation [5, 25–27].”
Fifty years of change in northern upland forest understories: Identity and traits of “winner” and “loser” plant species (2006, background): “In addition, previous studies in temperate forests find that graminoids increase in areas with high deer herbivory while many forbs decline (Trumbull et al., 1989; Gill, 1992; Miller et al., 1992; Rooney and Dress, 1997; Rooney, 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).”
Top-down and bottom-up consequences of unchecked ungulate browsing on plant and animal diversity in temperate forests: lessons from a deer introduction (2010, unknown): “They are highly susceptible to repeated browsing and their abundance is reduced at high deer densities (Miller et al. 1992; Rooney 1997; Rooney and Dress 1997; Augustine et al. 1998; Rooney 2001; Moser and Schütz 2006; Waller 2008).”
Population growth rate of a common understory herb decreases non-linearly across a gradient of deer herbivory (2009, background): “…ecosystems because their dense populations can inhibit forest plants' regeneration and reduce crop yield (Tilghman 1989, Inouye et al. 1994, Waller and Alverson 1997; Persson et al. 2000; Rooney 2001, Russell et al. 2001, Augustine & DeCalesta 2003, Horsley et al. 2003, Côté et al. 2004).”
Impacts of white-tailed deer on regional patterns of forest tree recruitment (2016, background): “In the Upper Midwest, the density and growth of several slow-growing, palatable woody species like Tsuga canadensis, Betula alleghaniensis, and Thuja occidentalis have declined sharply in regions with abundant deer (Rooney & Waller 2003; Rooney 2001; Waller & Alverson 1997).”
Regulation of animal size by eNPP, Bergmann's rule, and related phenomena (2011, background): “At high densities, negative feedbacks develop in which deer populations overbrowse forage (e.g., Leopold 1947, 1950, Rooney 2001, Stewart et al. 2006 for North American elk), switch food to secondary and tertiary browse (Tremblay et al. 2005), shift reproductive strategies (Simard et al. 2008), and…”