High white-tailed deer densities benefit graminoids and contribute to biotic homogenization of forest ground-layer vegetation

Plant Ecology

Volumn 202, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 103-111

  Rooney, Thomas P ^a  

^a WRIGHT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bray Curtis similarity; Deer browsing; Grazing lawn; Log response ratio; Northern hardwood forest; Wisconsin

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL INVASION; BROWSING; DEER; GLOBAL CHANGE; GRAZING; HOMOGENEITY; PLANT COMMUNITY; POPULATION DENSITY; VEGETATION COVER;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WISCONSIN;

CAREX; CERVIDAE; CONIUM; FILICOPHYTA; HEXAPODA; ODOCOILEUS VIRGINIANUS; POACEAE;

EID: 63949086290     PISSN: 13850237     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11258-008-9489-8     Document Type: Article

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