Defining deer overabundance and threats to forest communities: From individual plants to landscape structure

By David J. Augustine, D. Decalesta. 2003

118 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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In Ecology

1. T. Rooney
2. J. Tremblay
3. A. Royo
4. Steeve D. Côté
5. S. Kalisz
6. Hal Caswell
7. D. Waller
8. T. Knight

In Nature and Landscape Conservation

1. A. Royo
2. Steeve D. Côté
3. T. Rooney
4. J. Tremblay
5. S. Kalisz
6. Hal Caswell
7. D. Waller
8. T. Knight

Citations in the corpus

• Restoring forest herb communities through landscape-level deer herd reductions: Is recovery limited by legacy effects? (2010, background): “Augustine and Calesta (2003) evaluated the utility of herbaceous browse indicators and hypothesized that ideal phytoindicators would consist of palatable, long-lived, shade tolerant species.”
• Effects of abundant white-tailed deer on vegetation, animals, mycorrhizal fungi, and soils (2014, background): “White-tailed deer typically have varying preferences for different food types, and alter their diets when their most preferred foods are not available (Augustine and DeCalesta, 2003; Royo et al., 2010).”
• Ranking temperate woody species along a gradient of browsing by deer. (2009, background): “Ungulate herbivory affects vegetation at all levels, from individual plant organs to landscape scales (Augustine and DeCalesta, 2003; Weisberg and Bugmann, 2003) with cascade mechanisms impacting trees and shrubs (Gill and Beardall, 2001),”
• Ecological Impacts of Deer Overabundance (2004, background): “Indicators based on vegetation measurements increase our capacity to implement localized management programs and to monitor progress toward specific management goals (Augustine & DeCalesta 2003, Augustine & Jordan 1998, Balgooyen & Waller 1995, McShea & Rappole 2000).”
• Disease risks and overabundance of game species (2006, background): “…directly in terms of population density and also indirectly by measuring the consequences for the habitat (e.g. effects on natural vegetation, Augustine and DeCalesta 2003) or on the animal's fitness (e.g. trophy scores, fat levels or reproduction, Stewart et al. 2005, and parasites, Eve and…”
• 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).”
• Shrubs protect oak seedlings against ungulate browsing in temperate broadleaved forests of conservation interest: A field experiment (2012, background): “Selective browsing by large herbivores influences light availability, tree regeneration and ground vegetation structure and composition, to an extent that browsing-tolerant tree species are often favored (Schreiner et al., 1996; Kirby, 2001; Augustine and DeCalesta, 2003; Kuijper et al., 2010; Mathi”