Less is more: vegetation changes coincide with white‐tailed deer suppression over thirty years
Joshua K. Pickering,
Michael S. W. Bradstreet,
D. Ryan Norris
Abstract:Although ecological impacts of overabundant white‐tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) are well documented in eastern North America, few studies have evaluated the long‐term effects of adaptive deer population suppression after a period of overabundance. We examined vegetation community changes over a period of 30 years (1992–2021) on the Long Point Peninsula, Ontario, Canada following a >85% reduction of a previously overabundant white‐tailed deer population. We documented a significant increase in species… Show more
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