Forests too deer: edge effects in northern Wisconsin

WS Alverson, DM Waller, SL Solheim - Conservation biology, 1988 - Wiley Online Library
… by elevated populations of white-tailed deer appears to constitute a major edge effect in the
Deer affect forest composition through direct, well-documented negative effects on several …

An evaluation of edge use by white-tailed deer

SJ Williamson, DH Hirth - Wildlife Society Bulletin (1973-2006), 1985 - JSTOR
… We examined white-tailed deer use of edges in the context of optimal foraging strategy.
Theoretical foraging models propose that herbivores maximize nutrient intake within a fixed …

Deer browsing, forest edge effects, and vegetation dynamics following bottomland forest restoration

KJ Ruzicka, JW Groninger, JJ Zaczek - Restoration Ecology, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Deer herbivory was associated with reduced stem height and … that deer browsing influences
forest stand composition and density as a function of distance from the nearest forest edge. …

Direct and indirect effects of white-tailed deer in forest ecosystems

TP Rooney, DM Waller - Forest ecology and management, 2003 - Elsevier
… In this paper, we first examine the direct effects of white-tailed deer browsing in the mixed
coniferous–deciduous forests of northern Wisconsin. Drawing on our own research, we …

The impacts of whitetailed deer browsing and distance from the forest edge on soybean yield

JE Rogerson, JL Bowman, EL Tymkiw… - Wildlife Society …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
… forest edge in this case (Reynolds et al. 2007). Without separating … effects of deer browse
and other edge effects on yield, the conclusion that deer are having a larger effect at the edge

Effects of whitetailed deer on populations of an understory forb in fragmented deciduous forests

DJ Augustine, LE Frelich - Conservation Biology, 1998 - Wiley Online Library
effect of deer herbivory on the size structure of Trillium populations at various local deer
densities, (2) the effect of deer … are located toward the southern edge of the species’ range and …

Population effects of white-tailed deer dispersal

CS Rosenberry, RA Lancia, MC Conner - Wildlife Society Bulletin, 1999 - JSTOR
white-tailed deer population has not been empirically estimated. Our goal was to assess effects
… If 6 km (the median dispersal distance in our study) defined the dispersal edge, a circular …

Regional assessment on influence of landscape configuration and connectivity on range size of white-tailed deer

WD Walter, KC VerCauteren, H Campa, WR Clark… - Landscape …, 2009 - Springer
… We selected contrast-weighted edge density and mean nearest neighbor to describe … and
high-contrast edges of forested cover types within the home range of deer would decrease size …

Effects of abundant white-tailed deer on vegetation, animals, mycorrhizal fungi, and soils

AL Shelton, JA Henning, P Schultz, K Clay - Forest Ecology and …, 2014 - Elsevier
… the effects of high densities of white-tailed deer on forest communities. However, few studies
have simultaneously examined the effects of deereffects of excluding white-tailed deer on …

Edge effects created by clear-cutting on habitat use by sika deer on Mt. Goyo, northern Honshu, Japan

S Takatsuki - Ecological Research, 1989 - Springer
deer increased due to clear-cutting and because the deer did not venture 200 m further than
the forest edge. I therefore advocate the use of the term "edge effect" for this phenomenon. …