Deer facilitate invasive plant success in a pennsylvania forest understory

Natural Areas Journal

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 110-116

  Knight, Tiffany M ^a,b   Dunn, Jessica L ^a   Smith, Lisa A ^c   Davis, JoAnn ^d   Kalisz, Susan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Consulting Ecologist ^*  (United States)

^d Beechwood Farms Nature Reserve   (United States)

Author keywords

Alliaria petiolata; Deer exclusion experiment; Deer overabundance; Invasive specie; Mic rostegium vimineum

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BIODIVERSITY; DEER; DEGRADATION; DICOTYLEDON; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; HUMAN ACTIVITY; INVASIVE SPECIES; MONOCOTYLEDON; PLANT COMMUNITY; UNDERSTORY;

ALLIARIA PETIOLATA; CERVIDAE; MICROSTEGIUM VIMINEUM; ODOCOILEUS VIRGINIANUS;

EID: 65949103177     PISSN: 08858608     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3375/043.029.0202     Document Type: Article

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