WHITE‐TAILED DEER IMPACT ON THE VEGETATION DYNAMICS OF A NORTHERN HARDWOOD FOREST

By S. Horsley, S. Stout, D. Decalesta. 2003

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Subfields: Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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Manipulating ungulate herbivory in temperate and boreal forests: effects on vegetation and invertebrates. A systematic review (2018, background): “, [77, 78]) have thus contributed unique insights into the complexity of biodiversity responses.”
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.”
Interactions between white-tailed deer density and the composition of forest understories in the northern United States (2017, background): “, 2014), enclosures (Horsley et al., 2003; Nuttle et al., 2014), and island studies (e.”
Human‐induced changes in large herbivorous mammal density: the consequences for decomposers (2004, positive): “A ten-year enclosure study in forests of northern Pennsylvania (Horsley et al. 2003), in which white-tailed deer were fenced within large plots at several densities, revealed that deer adversely affected the growth and density of palatable deciduous tree species.”
Biodiversity, exotic plant species, and herbivory: The good, the bad, and the ungulate (2007, background): “Horsley et al. (2003) reported a decrease in species richness with increasing deer density.”
Legacy of top-down herbivore pressure ricochets back up multiple trophic levels in forest canopies over 30 years (2011, background): “In response, plant density may decrease or plant community composition may shift to dominance by less productive or better- defended (lower quality) species (Leibold 1989, Horsley et al. 2003).”
Big game or big loss? High deer densities are threatening woody plant diversity and vegetation dynamics (2014, background): “…studied (e.g. Marquis 1974; Anderson and Loucks 1979; Tilghman 1989; Gill 1992a, b; Putman 1994; Putman and Moore 1998; Gill and Beardall 2001; Horsley et al. 2003; Rooney and Waller 2003; Côté et al. 2004; White 2012), there is very little information on the long-term impacts of deer…”
Long-term effects of deer browsing: Composition, structure and productivity in a northeastern Minnesota old-growth forest (2012, background): “, 2005), understory and overstory woody vegetation composition and structure (Whitney, 1984; Horseley et al., 2003), forest songbirds (McShea and Rappole, 2000; Allombert et al.”
Native invaders – challenges for science, management, policy, and society (2012, background): “For example, juniper dominates grasslands in its native range, the western and southwestern US, as a result of human-mediated wildfire suppression (Ansley and Rasmussen 2005), whereas human removal of top predators has led to an overabundance of white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) in the east”
Large scale experimental effects of three levels of sheep densities on an alpine ecosystem (2008, methodology): “Different levels of browsing intensity cause nonlinear decreases (Tremblay et al. 2006), thresholds and then a linear decrease (Persson et al. 2005) or no response at all (Horsley et al. 2003) on a short-term scale (three years).”
On the formation of dense understory layers in forests worldwide: consequences and implications for forest dynamics, biodiversity, and succession (2006, background): “Overbrowsing selects for only those species that are well defended or tolerant to browsing (e.g., Horsley et al. 2003; Banta et al. 2005).”
The ecological impact of humans and dogs on wildlife in protected areas in eastern North America (2016, background): “All wildlife species examined in this study are legally hunted in the study area and are common in the Southeastern United States with white-tailed deer thought to exist at the highest densities among mammal species in that area (Horsley et al., 2003; Kays et al., 2016).”
Ecosystem and competition impacts of introduced deer (2008, positive): “…and ultimately forest canopies through their impacts on regeneration, generally with an increase in unpalatable species or those resistant to browsing (Kirby 2001; Horsley et al. 2003; Joys et al. 2004; Rooney et al. 2004; Stone et al. 2004; Focardi and Tinelli 2005; Gill and Fuller 2007).”
Chronic over browsing and biodiversity collapse in a forest understory in Pennsylvania: Results from a 60 year-old deer exclusion plot (2011, background): “Deer have been overabundant in the area since the 1930s (Rooney and Dress 1997, Horsley et al. 2003) and densities have ranged between 10–15 deer km22 for the past few decades but were typically higher from 1950 through the 1980s (Horsley et al 2003).”