Sentence examples for deer browsing from inspiring English sources

We still have a high level of wildlife: I saw two roe deer browsing in one of the valleys, several coveys of grouse, and a rare snipe.

Deer browsing strongly altered vegetation structure by reducing canopy cover and shrub layer foliage density.

Fences were erected six years after herbicide treatment in response to increased deer browsing at a subset of sites.

High deer browsing pressure may threaten forest ecosystems and needs to be assessed over the long run.

The first case study examined the long-term effects of persistently high white-tailed deer browsing rates in the northern hardwood forests of the Allegheny National Forest, USA.

Small groups of research participants were taken to visit, and thus experience, three predominantly oak woodlands in the UK, representing different levels of deer browsing.

One of them, Ilex glabra, the native inkberry, with its almost black berries, has won great fame in the Northeast as it appears to be resistant to deer browse.

Here, we experimentally evaluate whether hardwood tree stump sprouts are effective and sensitive phytoindicators of deer browse pressure.

We cannot definitively reject this second possibility, but given the very low rates of deer browse on beech seedlings, major confounding effects seem highly unlikely.

Second, it is possible that deer browse beneath adult conspecifics could be more likely to cause seedling death or stunting (e.g. perhaps due to lower light levels and reduced photosynthetic reserves).

Decades of overbrowsing by white-tailed deer have led to almost complete recruitment failure in size classes >2.5 cm dbh for preferred deer browse species Thuja occidentalis and Pinus strobus in unprotected plots.