Conifer leader browsing by roe deer in English upland forests: Effects of deer density and understorey vegetation

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 256, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1333-1338

  Ward, Alastair I ^a   White, Piran C L ^b   Walker, Neil J ^a   Critchley, Charles H ^c  

^a CENTRAL SCIENCE LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^c Forest Enterprise   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Capreolus capreolus; Culling; Habitat management

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; CROPS; LANDFORMS; PROBABILITY; VEGETATION;

CAPREOLUS CAPREOLUS; CULLING; DENSITY INDEX; ENGLAND; HABITAT MANAGEMENT; NUTRIENT-POOR SOILS; OPTIMAL MODELING; PLANTATION FORESTS; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; ROE DEER; TREE DAMAGE; TREE DENSITY; UNDERSTOREY; UNDERSTOREY VEGETATION;

FORESTRY;

ABUNDANCE; BROWSING; CONIFEROUS TREE; CULLING; DAMAGE; DEER; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; HABITAT MANAGEMENT; PEST CONTROL; POPULATION DENSITY; PROBABILITY; UNDERSTORY; UPLAND REGION;

AGRICULTURE; FARM CROPS; FORESTRY; PLANTS; PROBABILITY; WOOD DENSITY;

ENGLAND; EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

CAPREOLUS; CAPREOLUS CAPREOLUS; CERVIDAE; CONIFEROPHYTA; UNGULATA;

EID: 49949095162     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2008.06.034     Document Type: Article

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