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Impacts of white-tailed deer on regional patterns of forest tree recruitment

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Bradshaw, Lauren, Waller, Donald M.·2016·Forest Ecology and Management
DOI 10.1016/j.foreco.2016.05.019

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Local, short- to medium-term studies make clear that white-tailed deer can greatly suppress tree growth and survival in palatable tree species. To assess how deer have broadly affected patterns of tree recruitment across northern Wisconsin, we analyzed recruitment success in 11 common trees species that vary in palatability across 13,105 USFS - FIA plots sampled between 1983 and 2013. We also examined how recruitment in these species covaried with estimated deer densities here. Saplings of five palatable species were scarce relative to less palatable species and showed highly skewed distributions. Scarcity and skew provide reliable signals of deer impacts even when deer have severely reduced recruitment and/or no reliable deer density data are available. Deer densities ranged from 2.3 to 23 deer per km2 over a 30year period. Sapling numbers in two maples (Acer) and aspen (Populus) with intermediate palatability declined sharply in apparent response to higher deer density. Path analysis also reveals that deer act to cumulatively depress sapling recruitment in these species over successive decades. Together, these approaches show that deer have strongly depressed sapling recruitment in all taxa except Abies and Picea. As these impacts are now propagating into larger sized trees, deer are also altering canopy composition and dynamics. The tools developed here provide efficient and reliable indicators for monitoring deer impacts on forest tree recruitment using consistent data co…

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Authors
Bradshaw, L., & Waller, D. M.
Affiliations
University of Wisconsin–Madison (US)
Corresponding author
Waller, Donald M.
ORCID
Waller, Donald M.
Venue
Forest Ecology and Management
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2016-09
Volume
375
Pages
1-11
ISSN
0378-1127 (ISSN-L)
DOI
10.1016/j.foreco.2016.05.019
OpenAlex
W2953112944
Cited by
117
References
53
Citations by year
2026: 6 · 2025: 13 · 2024: 12 · 2023: 18 · 2022: 11 · 2021: 13 · 2020: 10 · 2019: 17 · 2018: 7 · 2017: 8 · 2016: 2
FWCI
9.93
Type
journal article
Language
en
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Licence
Locations
  • Forest Ecology and Management (acceptedVersion)
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) (acceptedVersion)
  • Digital Commons - USU (Utah State University) (submittedVersion)
Funders
  • Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources
  • Université de Montpellier
  • U.S. Forest Service
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Ecology › Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
  • Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Nature and Landscape Conservation › Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Ecology › Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies
Keywords
white-tailed deer, tree recruitment, sapling recruitment, deer browsing, palatability, deer density, canopy composition, Acer, poplar, Abies, Picea, forest dynamics

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