A natural experiment on the impact of overabundant deer on songbird populations

By Sylvain Allombert, A. J. Gaston, Jean-Louis Martin. 2005

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Subfields: Ecological Modeling, Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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Long-term effects of deer browsing: Composition, structure and productivity in a northeastern Minnesota old-growth forest (2012, background): “…species diversity (Alverson et al., 1988; Stockton et al., 2005), understory and overstory woody vegetation composition and structure (Whitney, 1984; Horseley et al., 2003), forest songbirds (McShea and Rappole, 2000; Allombert et al., 2005a) and forest invertebrates (Allombert et al., 2005b).”
Browsing down our natural heritage: Deer impacts on vegetation structure and songbird populations across an island archipelago (2011, methodology): “Prior to analysis, understory dependence scores were calculated using information on bird species foraging and nesting behaviour using information from Alsop (2001) and Allombert et al. (2005a). Note ground feeders were given an understory dependence vegetation score for foraging of 0.”
Ecosystem and competition impacts of introduced deer (2008, unknown): “…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 invertebrates (Baines et…”
Impacts of introduced deer and extinct moa on New Zealand ecosystems (2010, background): “Finally, we note that work outside New Zealand has shown that deer can reduce the diversity and abundance of birds, particularly those that utilise the understorey (e.g. Côté et al. 2004; Allombert et al. 2005).”
Ranking temperate woody species along a gradient of browsing by deer. (2009, background): “(Ammer, 1996; Horsley et al., 2003; Potvin et al., 2003), one of the key questions is to assess what the preferred species actually are (Strole and Anderson, 1992; Forsyth et al., 2002). This differential consumption can be estimated through diet studies. Jackson (1974) summarised the benefits and d”
A perfect storm: two ecosystem engineers interact to degrade deciduous forests of New Jersey (2008, background): “For example, overbrowsing by deer reduced abundance and species diversity of forest-dwelling insects (Allombert et al. 2005a) as well as abundance and species richness of web spiders (Miyashita et al. 2004).”
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).”
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): “A multivariate analysis of changes in these arthropod communities (Allombert et al. 2005a, b) reveals the same pattern of simplification and homogenization between ecotopes than the one shown here for the vegetation.”