Development of Tree Regeneration in Fern‐dominated Forest Understories After Reduction of Deer Browsing

By Avril L. de la Cretaz, M. Kelty. 2002

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Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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Deer and Invasive Plant Species Suppress Forest Herbaceous Communities and Canopy Tree Regeneration (2011, background): “Other research has shown that decreasing deer alone will not allow a forest to recover, particularly when an invasive plant has come to dominate the understory (de la Cretaz and Kelty 2002; Coomes et al. 2003; Knight et al. 2009).”
WHITE‐TAILED DEER IMPACT ON THE VEGETATION DYNAMICS OF A NORTHERN HARDWOOD FOREST (2003, background): “Birch, Rubus, white pine (Pinus strobus L.) (Horsley and Marquis 1983, de la Cretaz and Kelty 2002), and eastern hemlock (personal observation) are capable of growing through fern cover and reducing fern abundance over time, if propagules are present.”
On the formation of dense understory layers in forests worldwide: consequences and implications for forest dynamics, biodiversity, and succession (2006, background): “…of tree species demonstrate that a majority of tree species suffer decreased seedling densities and limited height growth underneath recalcitrant understory canopies (e.g., Horsley and Marquis 1983; George and Bazzaz 1999a, 1999b; de la Cretaz and Kelty 2002; Hille Ris Lambers and Clark 2003).”
High white-tailed deer densities benefit graminoids and contribute to biotic homogenization of forest ground-layer vegetation (2009, background): “…areas, particularly in the mixedconifer forests of the Allegheny Plateaus (Tilghman 1989; Rooney and Dress 1997; Horsley et al. 2003; Carson et al. 2005), northeastern United States coastal forest (de la Cretaz and Kelty 2002), and Great Lakes forest (Wiegmann and Waller 2006) in North America.”
Long‐term biological legacies of herbivore density in a landscape‐scale experiment: forest understoreys reflect past deer density treatments for at least 20 years (2014, background): “Furthermore, dense cover by ferns and other browse-tolerant species has been shown at least initially to suppress growth and recovery of other species even after deer density was reduced (de la Cretaz & Kelty 2002; Royo & Carson 2006; Tanentzap, Kirby & Goldberg 2012).”