Ecological impacts of deer overabundance

Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics

Volumn 35, Issue , 2004, Pages 113-147

  Côté, Steeve D ^a   Rooney, Thomas P ^b   Tremblay, Jean Pierre ^a   Dussault, Christian ^a   Waller, Donald M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Browsing; Cervidae; Forest regeneration; Herbivory; Plant herbivore interactions

Indexed keywords

BROWSING; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; PLANT-HERBIVORE INTERACTION; UNGULATE;

ANIMALIA; AVES; CERVIDAE; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 11244257500     PISSN: 00664162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.ecolsys.35.021103.105725     Document Type: Review

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