Sentence examples for deer herbivory from inspiring English sources

Thus, Alliaria may sometimes act to protect taxa like Uvularia sensitive to deer herbivory.

These inverse spatial patterns suggest that deer herbivory can lead to landscape-scale variation in regeneration success.

Our results indicate that foliar nutrient variation influences endophyte community assembly and deer herbivory in P. monticola on a small landscape scale (80 hectares).

Specifically, we examined how white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) abundance, reserve size, and landscape context at variable spatial scales interact to influence the impact of deer herbivory on forest understory communities in 16 Indiana state parks.

Comparison of multiple regression models, using Akaike's Information Criterion, suggested that the per capita impact of deer herbivory to forest understories was strongly related to landscape configuration of deer habitat types at the scale of an individual deer's home range, whereas deer abundance was more strongly associated with landscape structure at broader spatial scales.

The effects of deer herbivory and forest type on tree recruitment vary with plant growth stage.

Other factors potentially limiting the spread of C. mollissima into North American forests include predation of seeds and seedling herbivory by deer, as well as direct competition from invasive understorey plant species.

We used a 2 × 2 experimental design replicated across five locations in southern Wisconsin to assess the separate and combined effects of herbivory by white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) and competition from the weedy invader Alliaria petiolata (garlic mustard) on five native species.

For example, the 40 species in our study are characteristic of early and mid-successional secondary forests recovering from intensive agricultural use [43], and these habitats are dominated by intensive herbivory by white-tailed deer Odocoileus virginianus (personal observations).

Doing so is particularly opportune for ecosystems where biodiversity is threatened by excessive herbivory from a pandemic overabundance of white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) [ 16], and because current funding levels for biodiversity conservation are insufficient under species/site-specific terrestrial frameworks [ 17].

In a population of captured wild fallow deer we simulated a natural situation where two separate plant patches are exposed to intense herbivory pressure.