Importance of alternative food resources for browsing by roe deer on deciduous trees: The role of food availability and species quality

Moser, Barbara; Schütz, Martin; Hindenlang, Karin E.

doi:10.1016/j.foreco.2006.01.045

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“…The rank of availability and the rank of usage of each category within single seasons were calculated for each area separately. The difference between the rank of availability and the rank of use of a plant category was then tested by the Wilcoxon paired-sample test and nonparametric confidence intervals (0.95) were calculated (Moser et al 2006).…”

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“…In order to limit forest and crop damage, forest management and agriculture policy should consider these mechanisms and the capacity of roe deer to adapt quickly to temporary high-quality forage supply by providing alternative food (Putman 1986;Moser et al 2006). With respect to predictive climate change scenarios, which suggest increasing probability of heatwaves and droughts in summer, the flexibility of forage behaviour may enable roe deer to adapt to changing plant availability patterns, as long as sufficient high-quality food is available.…”

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Local and seasonal variations of roe deer diet in relation to food resource availability in a Mediterranean environment

Minder

2011

Eur J Wildl Res

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Feeding behaviour patterns of European roe deer are well known but not in their southern range, where in contrast to Central and northern Europe the climate is characterised by mild winters, but hot and dry summer months. Spatial and temporal variations of the roe deer diet were investigated by analyses of 597 faecal samples in a coastal area in Italy. The aim was to evaluate the adaptive strategies of dietary intake to seasonal availability of different forage types in areas of fairly natural Mediterranean scrubwood and different areas dominated by agricultural habitats. A wide range of plant taxa (151 species/genera) was used, belonging to eight categories. A gradient was found from a diet dominated by woody plants and fruits in natural habitats to one characterised by cultivated plants in the agricultural areas. Usage of forage categories in areas dominated by woodland was proportional to their availability, whereas diet selection was found in the agricultural habitats, particularly marked in summer, the time at which food quantity and quality decreased due to harvest and drought. As to seasonal variation, the summer and autumn diets included more deciduous browse, whereas the winter diet was characterised by an increasing use of cereals and grass. In most areas, half-woody browse and fruit were preferred; grass and cereals were used less than expected by their availability. Most probably, selective behaviour patterns are linked to the difference of quality between plants together with their variable abundance, which is more evident in agricultural areas than in the woodland.

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Local and seasonal variations of roe deer diet in relation to food resource availability in a Mediterranean environment

Minder

2011

Eur J Wildl Res

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“…B. den Blättern der Brombeere (Rubus fruticosus agg. ), vom Rehwild saisonal selektiv verbissen werden, konnten Moser et al (2006) zeigen. So ließ sich im Gegensatz zum Winter im Sommer kein Zusammenhang zwischen der Verfügbarkeit von Brombeeren und der Verbissintensität feststellen.…”

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“…So fanden beispielsweise Moser et al (2006), dass Bestandeslücken im Hinblick auf das Fraßverhalten des Rehwilds nicht attraktiver waren als geschlossene Bestandesteile. Aus Untersuchungen in England ist bekannt, dass insbesondere bei Rehwild eine reduzierte Verfügbarkeit der bevorzugten Nahrung erst mit erheblicher Zeitverzögerung eine geringere Rehwilddichte zur Folge hat, da diese Wildart ein hohes Anpassungsvermögen an bislang nicht genutzte Nahrungsquellen aufweist (Gill et al 1996).…”

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Ammer¹,

Vor²,

Knoke³

et al. 2010

Göttinger Forstwissenschaften

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“…Deer can modify the relative competitive ability of certain plants within a plant community. Indeed, differences in palatability and abundance between two competing species may give one species a competitive advantage over the other (Moser et al 2006).…”

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Understory vegetation dynamics and tree regeneration as affected by deer herbivory in temperate hardwood forests

Laurent¹,

Mårell²,

Balandier³

et al. 2017

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Plant competition and deer browsing are two main factors which limit tree recruitment. We examined natural tree-recruitment processes under continuous-tree-cover management. Changes in plant communities and tree regeneration were monitored over an eight-year period at two different sites in a temperate hardwood forest in the North-East of France. We used paired control plot (unfenced areas, free access to deer) and exclosures (fenced areas, excluding deer) at both sites. Shade-tolerant browsing-tolerant opportunistic species (beech, Fagus sylvatica at site 1 and bramble, Rubus spp. at site 2) were present in low numbers at the beginning of the study. We found that these species used a sit-and-wait strategy, waiting for opportunities to proliferate (thinning and deer exclusion). In the exclosure at site 1, beech proliferate slowly. In the exclosure at site 2, bramble proliferated enough during the first two growing seasons to prevent tree recruitment. Thus, fencing encouraged beech sapling or bramble growth, and this growth in turn was detrimental to the richness and diversity of the plant community. The two study cases presented show that both plant competition and deer browsing can be problematic for tree recruitment. Our results further suggest that excluding deer is not sufficient to enhance the growth of browse-sensitive and moderately shade-tolerant tree species such as oaks (Quercus petraea and Q. robur).

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Importance of alternative food resources for browsing by roe deer on deciduous trees: The role of food availability and species quality

Cited by 73 publications

References 27 publications

Local and seasonal variations of roe deer diet in relation to food resource availability in a Mediterranean environment

Local and seasonal variations of roe deer diet in relation to food resource availability in a Mediterranean environment

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Understory vegetation dynamics and tree regeneration as affected by deer herbivory in temperate hardwood forests

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