Reindeer reduce biomass of preferred plant species

By K. Bråthen, Jari Oksanen. 2001

108 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Agronomy and Crop Science, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Forestry

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In Agronomy and Crop Science

1. A. Eskelinen
2. A. Pajunen
3. R. Virtanen
4. M. Schädler

In Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

1. Rune Halvorsen
2. A. Eskelinen
3. R. Virtanen
4. A. Pajunen
5. P. Hulme
6. K. Bråthen
7. R. Brandl
8. Jari Oksanen

In Forestry

1. A. Eskelinen
2. A. Pajunen
3. R. Virtanen
4. A. Mysterud
5. Gunnar Austrheim

Citations in the corpus

• Herbivore and neighbour effects on tundra plants depend on species identity, nutrient availability and local environmental conditions (2007, background): “It is a preferred foodplant for reindeer (Bråthen & Oksanen 2001; personal observation).”
• Large scale experimental effects of three levels of sheep densities on an alpine ecosystem (2008, background): “The exception is some highly selected palatable graminoids which also are found to decrease at high grazing levels (Bråthen and Oksanen 2001, Austrheim et al. 2007).”
• Long- and short-term effects of reindeer grazing on tundra wetland vegetation (2009, background): “…of summer grazing on reindeer pastures have received less attention than winter grazing (Suominen and Olofsson 2000), but during the last decade there has been more research on the eVect of grazing and trampling on summer pastures (Virtanen 1998; Bråthen and Oksanen 2001; Olofsson et al. 2001).”
• Ecological Impacts of Deer Overabundance (2004, background): “With an overabundant deer population, the biomass deer consume becomes large relative to standing crops, particularly in low-productivity environments such as forest understories (Brathen & Oksanen 2001).”
• Importance of large and small mammalian herbivores for the plant community structure in the forest tundra ecotone (2004, background): “northern Fennoscandia in areas with particularly high grazing pressure (Brathen and Oksanen 2001).”
• Palatability, decomposition and insect herbivory: patterns in a successional old‐field plant community (2003, background): “for large vertebrate grazers (Pastor and Naiman 1992, Brathen and Oksanen 2001). Wardle et al. (2002) found a significant positive correlation between litter decomposition rates of understorey and canopy tree species in natural forest throughout New Zealand and the extent to which vegetation density”
• Can Reindeer Overabundance Cause a Trophic Cascade? (2007, background): “…overabundance was available in terms of strong spatial density-dependence in reindeer body mass and climate-sensitive demography (Fauchald and others 2004; Tveraa and others 2007) and in terms of negative grazing impact on vegetation (Bråthen and Oksanen 2001; K.A. Bråthen and others, in press).”
• The effects of reindeer grazing on the composition and species richness of vegetation in forest–tundra ecotone (2008, result): “In addition, several reindeer preferred forb species (Warenberg et al. 1997) increased in exclosures similarly as in earlier studies (Oksanen and Moen 1994; Manseau et al. 1996; Bråthen and Oksanen 2001).”