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

Ecoscience

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 472-486

  Augustine, David J ^a   DeCalesta, David ^b  

^a SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Wildlife Analysis Consulting   (United States)

Author keywords

Forest fragmentation; Odocoileus; Old growth forest; Plant community conservation; Trillium; Understory indicators

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; FOREST MANAGEMENT; FRAGMENTATION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT;

MINNESOTA; NEW YORK [NEW YORK (STT)]; NEW YORK [UNITED STATES]; NORTH AMERICA; PENNSYLVANIA; UNITED STATES;

CERVIDAE; ODOCOILEUS; ODOCOILEUS VIRGINIANUS; TRILLIUM;

EID: 0348167917     PISSN: 11956860     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/11956860.2003.11682795     Document Type: Article

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