Ecological impacts of deer overabundance

SD Côté, TP Rooney, JP Tremblay… - Annu. Rev. Ecol …, 2004 - annualreviews.org
▪ Abstract Deer have expanded their range and increased dramatically in abundance
worldwide in recent decades. They inflict major economic losses in forestry, agriculture, and …

Effects of herbivores on grassland plant diversity

H Olff, ME Ritchie - Trends in ecology & evolution, 1998 - cell.com
The role of herbivores in controlling plant species richness is a critical issue in the
conservation and management of grassland biodiversity. Numerous field experiments in …

Principles of terrestrial ecosystem ecology

FS Chapin, PA Matson, HA Mooney, PM Vitousek - 2002 - Springer
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[BOOK][B] Ecological niches: linking classical and contemporary approaches

JM Chase, MA Leibold - 2009 - books.google.com
Why do species live where they live? What determines the abundance and diversity of
species in a given area? What role do species play in the functioning of entire ecosystems …

Biological nitrogen fixation: rates, patterns and ecological controls in terrestrial ecosystems

PM Vitousek, DNL Menge… - … Transactions of the …, 2013 - royalsocietypublishing.org
New techniques have identified a wide range of organisms with the capacity to carry out
biological nitrogen fixation (BNF)—greatly expanding our appreciation of the diversity and …

Ungulate effects on the functional species composition of plant communities: herbivore selectivity and plant tolerance

DJ Augustine, SJ McNaughton - The Journal of wildlife management, 1998 - JSTOR
Large mammalian herbivores not only depend on plant communities for their existence but
cause major changes in plant community composition and structure. These changes have …

Herbivore‐mediated linkages between aboveground and belowground communities

RD Bardgett, DA Wardle - Ecology, 2003 - Wiley Online Library
Understanding how terrestrial ecosystems function requires a combined aboveground–
belowground approach, because of the importance of feedbacks that occur between …

[BOOK][B] Aboveground-belowground linkages: biotic interactions, ecosystem processes, and global change

RD Bardgett, DA Wardle - 2010 - books.google.com
Aboveground-Belowground Linkages provides the most up-to-date and comprehensive
synthesis of recent advances in our understanding of the roles that interactions between …

Towards an ecological understanding of biological nitrogen fixation

PM Vitousek, KEN Cassman, C Cleveland… - The nitrogen cycle at …, 2002 - Springer
N limitation to primary production and other ecosystem processes is widespread. To
understand the causes and distribution of N limitation, we must understand the controls of …

Tradeoffs and thresholds in the effects of nitrogen addition on biodiversity and ecosystem functioning: evidence from inner Mongolia Grasslands

Y Bai, J Wu, CM Clark, S Naeem, Q Pan… - Global change …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Nitrogen (N) deposition is widely considered an environmental problem that leads to
biodiversity loss and reduced ecosystem resilience; but, N fertilization has also been used …