White-tailed deer (odocoileus virginianus) positively affect the growth of mature northern red oak (quercus rubra) trees

Ecosphere

Volumn 4, Issue 7, 2013, Pages

  Lucas, Richard W ^a   Salguero gómez, Roberto ^b,c   Cobb, David B ^d   Waring, Bonnie G ^e   Anderson, Frank ^d   Mcshea, William J ^f   Casper, Brenda B ^d  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR DEMOGRAPHIC RESEARCH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^f SMITHSONIAN CONSERVATION BIOLOGY INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Competition release; Deer waste mechanism; Dendroecology; Forest; Herbivory; Shenandoah National Park; Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute; Tree cores.

Indexed keywords

EID: 84900456329     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21508925     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/ES13-00036.1     Document Type: Article

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