Deer Impacts on Seed Banks and Saplings in Eastern New York
| العنوان: | Deer Impacts on Seed Banks and Saplings in Eastern New York |
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| المؤلفون: | Margaret L. Ronsheim, Lynn M. Christenson, Carrie R. Levine, Raymond J. Winchcombe, Charles D. Canham |
| المصدر: | Northeastern Naturalist. 19:49-66 |
| بيانات النشر: | Humboldt Field Research Institute, 2012. |
| سنة النشر: | 2012 |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Abundance (ecology), Ecology, Seed dispersal, Plant community, Species richness, Biology, Odocoileus, biology.organism_classification, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics |
| الوصف: | Selective browsing by Odocoileus virginianus (White-tailed Deer) has shifted plant communities in the Northeast, but the effects of seed dispersal by deer on forest seed banks are unknown. We used data from deer exclosures in hunted and unhunted properties in southeastern New York to determine whether deer browsing and different deer management histories have altered composition and/or abundance of forest saplings and seed banks. Results indicate that deer did not alter species richness, abundance, or composition in seed banks in either hunted or unhunted areas. Deer did, however, de- crease sapling density and richness at the unhunted site but not at the hunted site. We conclude that impacts of unmanaged deer populations are greater on sapling recruitment than on seed banks. |
| تدمد: | 1938-5307 1092-6194 |
| DOI: | 10.1656/045.019.0104 |
| URL الوصول: | https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_________::025ec7b270590c6ae109ebbdf4e4af53 https://doi.org/10.1656/045.019.0104 |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsair.doi...........025ec7b270590c6ae109ebbdf4e4af53 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | OpenAIRE |
| تدمد: | 19385307 10926194 |
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| DOI: | 10.1656/045.019.0104 |