Deer browsing and soil disturbance induce cascading effects on plant communities: A multilevel path analysis

Ecological Applications

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 439-451

  Beguin, Julien ^a,b   Pothier, David ^a   Côtá, Steeve D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^b CENTRE D ÉTUDES NORDIQUES   (Canada)

Author keywords

Anticosti Island; Browsing tolerance; Canada; Cascading effects; Competition; Deer browsing; Facilitation; Gulf of St. Lawrence; Indirect effects; Multilevel path analysis; Odocoileus virginianus; Plant diversity; Plant herbivore relationships; White tailed deer

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BOREAL FOREST; BROWSING; DECIDUOUS TREE; DEER; DISTURBANCE; DOMINANCE; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; FACILITATION; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; HERB; HERBIVORE; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PLANT COMMUNITY; PLANT-HERBIVORE INTERACTION; POPULATION STRUCTURE; SOIL TYPE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; TAXONOMY; UNGULATE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CANADA; CLASSIFICATION; DEER; ECOSYSTEM; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT; SOIL;

ANIMALS; DEER; ECOSYSTEM; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; PLANTS; QUEBEC; SOIL;

ANTICOSTI ISLAND; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CANADA; GULF OF SAINT LAWRENCE; QUEBEC [CANADA];

BETULA PAPYRIFERA; BETULA PENDULA; CERVIDAE; ODOCOILEUS VIRGINIANUS; UNGULATA;

EID: 79955529929     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/09-2100.1     Document Type: Article

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