Landscape-level vegetation recovery from herbivory: Progress after four decades of invasive red deer control

Journal of Applied Ecology

Volumn 46, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1064-1072

  Tanentzap, Andrew J ^a   Burrows, Larry E ^b   Lee, William G ^c   Nugent, Graham ^b   Maxwell, Jane M ^d   Coomes, David A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b LANDCARE RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

^c LANDCARE RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

^d DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Browsing; Culling; Forests; Grasslands; Grazing; Herbivory; Introduced species; Restoration; Shrublands

Indexed keywords

BROWSING; CULLING; DEER; DENSITY DEPENDENCE; FOOD PREFERENCE; GRASSLAND; GRAZING; HERBIVORY; INTRODUCED SPECIES; INVASIVE SPECIES; PALATABILITY; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); REFUGIUM; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SAPLING; SEEDLING; SHRUBLAND; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

AUSTRALASIA; NEW ZEALAND;

CERVIDAE; CERVUS ELAPHUS; CHIONOCHLOA; UNGULATA;

EID: 70349682588     PISSN: 00218901     EISSN: 13652664     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2664.2009.01683.x     Document Type: Article

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