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Effects of White-Tailed Deer on Populations of an Understory Forb in Fragmented Deciduous Forests
The effects of grazing by white-tailed deer on populations of Trillium spp. were examined in remnant, old-growth patches of the highly fragmented Big Woods ...
Whitetails Are Changing Our Woodlands
This headline from a January 1993 article inthe Washington Post gets to the heart of scientists' concern that browsing by an overabundance of whitetail deer is ...
Ecological And Sociological Aspects of White-tailed Deer Herbivory In South Central Wisconsin
White-tailed deer numbers have increased dramatically in Wisconsin in the 20th century. This has been due to several factors; (1) protection afforded deer ...
Deer Density Effects On A Forest Ecosystem: A Study Its History-Design-Implementation
Today's second growth Cherry-Maple forests on the Allegheny Plateau have been heavily influenced by decades of overbrowsing by white-tailed deer. When these ...
A Conflict Between Forest Renewal and White-tailed Deer: A Silviculturalist's Perspective on Values
This conference is focused on "The Impact of Deer on the Biodiversity and Economy of Pennsylvania. "Each speaker on this panel has been asked to speak about ...
Acorn Weevils, Rodents, and Deer All Contribute to Oak-Regeneration Difficulties in Pennsylvania
In parts of Pennsylvania, oak regeneration after harvest cutting or natural disturbances has been very poor. Studies on the Tuscarora State Forest suggest that ...
Can Small Deer Enclosures Work?
Understanding the impact of deer density levels on forest regeneration is critical for determining acceptable deer populations. Deer are a natural component of ...
Canary in the Coal Mine - A Short History of Northern Pennsylvania Forests and Thier Deer Herd
The results that we discuss in the text of this issue are important to most northeastern states. But why focus on northwestern Pennsylvania forests, you ask? ...
Current and Predicted Long-term Effects of Deer Browsing in Hemlock Forests in Michigan, USA
Remnants of virgin hemlock Tsuga canadensis (L.) Carr. forest in the Porcupine Mountains, Michigan, USA, have experienced inadequate hemlock regeneration ...
Deer Browsing in Northern Hardwoods after Clearcutting
There is a close relationship between management of forest land for timber and management for game. This is especially evident in the use of cutting practices ...
Deer Carrying Capacity: Too Few, Too Many, and for Whom?
Management of white-tailed deer is one of Pennsylvania's most controversial issues. This gentle, attractive mammal is avaluable and widely appreciated natural ...
Deer Exclusion Effects on Understory Development Following Partial Cutting in a Pennsylvania Oak Stand
Forty fenced and unfenced paired plots were established in a central Pennsylvania mixed oak stand following an improvement shelterwood cut to assess the ...
Deer in Allegheny Plateau Forests: Learning the Lessons of Scale
Scientists began reporting that deer were reducing the abundance and diversity of plant species in Allegheny Plateau forests in the 1930s and 1940s. By the ...
Deer and Ecosystem Management
Within the last decade, managers of public and private forestlands have contemplated managing forest resources in ways that address the desired (future) ...
Deer and Forest Health
Scientists have studied deer and their impacts on forests for most of this century. They conducted much of this research before the phrase "forest health" took ...
Deer and Forest Resources: Not Just a Pennsylvania Problem
The impact of deer on forest resources is a big issue in Pennsylvania today, but we are not the only ones facing this problem. Other states, notably Michigan, ...
Effect of Deer Browsing on Timber Production in Allegheny Hardwood Forests of Northwestern Pennsylvania
Regeneration surveys in fenced and unfenced portions of thirteen 9- to 22-year-old clearcuts on the Allegheny Plateau of Northwestern Pennsylvania show that ...
Facilitation of Plant-Plant Interference by Herbivory in the Allegheny Hardwood Forest, Pennsylvania, USA: A Vegetation Management Problem
Advance seedlings are the primary source of regeneration in Prunus-Acer Allegheny hardwood stands in Pennsylvania, USA. Most stands lack adequate numbers of ...
Predictors of White-Tailed Deer Grazing Intensity in Fragmented Deciduous Forests
White-tailed deer (Oclocoileus virginianus) can cause major changes in the composition and structure of forest communities by browsing shrubs and tree ...
[Re]Generation Gaps: Impacts of White-Tailed Deer on Forest Resources
Jared Diamond, an internationally renown conservation biologist and regular contributor to Natural History magazine, compares visiting a forest with high deer ...

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