Seeing the forest for the deer: Do reductions in deer-disturbance lead to forest recovery?

Biological Conservation

Volumn 144, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 376-382

  Tanentzap, Andrew J ^a   Bazely, Dawn R ^b   Koh, Saewan ^b,d   Timciska, Mika ^b   Haggith, Edward G ^c   Carleton, Terry J ^c   Coomes, David A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Forest health; Mixedwood plains; Plant herbivore interactions; Restoration; Succession; Wildlife management

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BASAL AREA; BIOMONITORING; BROWSING; CANOPY; DECIDUOUS FOREST; DECIDUOUS TREE; DEER; DISTURBANCE; ENDANGERED SPECIES; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; FOREST HEALTH; FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; HABITAT RESTORATION; HABITAT TYPE; HERBIVORY; NATIVE SPECIES; PLANT COMMUNITY; PLANT-HERBIVORE INTERACTION; POPULATION DECLINE; POPULATION DENSITY; RARE SPECIES; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); REGENERATION; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SIZE STRUCTURE; SUCCESSION; WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT;

CANADA; CAROLINA; ONTARIO [CANADA]; PUERTO RICO;

CERVIDAE; ODOCOILEUS VIRGINIANUS;

EID: 78751584776     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2010.09.015     Document Type: Article

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