Ungulate browsing affects many plant species, shifting patterns of relative abundance, plant
community diversity, and ecosystem processes. Despite the strength and diversity of …

Deer populations have dramatically increased over the last decades in Western Europe and
their browsing has affected forest vegetation, especially plant community composition. High …

White-tailed deer can limit both growth and survival in slow-growing, shade-tolerant tree
species. We monitored 1,100 juvenile hemlocks (Tsuga canadensis) for up to 20 years at 54 …

Herbivores and invasive plants strongly affect the persistence of individual species and the
overall composition of forest plant communities. Although their impacts are usually studied …

Key message Thanks to the concomitant recordings of vegetation and deer browsing
sampled first in 1976, then resurveyed in 2006, we show that forest plant communities …

Eastern hemlock (Tsuga canadensis (L.) Carrière) is a shade-tolerant, slow-growing tree
once common in forests across the Great Lakes region. It was heavily exploited in the late …

Ungulate communities are changing at a global scale, which is increasing the need for
landscape scale quantification of ungulate impacts on plant communities. To achieve robust …

Most studies of white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus Zimm.) herbivory focus on a few
forb species or single sites in forest plant communities. However, managers require …

Despite the widespread interest in plant community restoration, few studies have assessed
white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus Zimm.) herbivory on herbaceous species and …

Many natural resource agencies are managing white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus)
populations in suburban areas and require information about deer populations, deer …