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A regional assessment of white-tailed deer effects on plant invasion
Averill et al. · 2017 · AoB Plants · cited 87×
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Managing for diversity: harvest gap size drives complex light, vegetation, and deer herbivory impacts on tree seedlings
Walters et al. · 2016 · Ecosphere · cited 75×
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Reviewing Fire, Climate, Deer, and Foundation Species as Drivers of Historically Open Oak and Pine Forests and Transition to Closed Forests
Hanberry et al. · 2020 · Frontiers in Forests and Global Change · cited 55×
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Influence of invasive shrubs and deer browsing on regeneration in temperate deciduous forests
Ward, Williams & Linske · 2017 · Canadian Journal of Forest Research · cited 48×
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Deer‐mediated changes in environment compound the direct impacts of herbivory on understorey plant communities
Sabo et al. · 2017 · Journal of Ecology · cited 47×
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Differences in dietary niche and foraging behavior of sympatric mule and white‐tailed deer
Berry et al. · 2019 · Ecosphere · cited 42×
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Stasis in forest regeneration following deer exclusion and understory gap creation: A 10‐year experiment
Royo & Carson · 2022 · Ecological Applications · cited 41×
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Overabundant deer and invasive plants drive widespread regeneration debt in eastern United States national parks
Miller et al. · 2023 · Ecological Applications · cited 41×
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Long-Term Effects of White-Tailed Deer Exclusion on the Invasion of Exotic Plants: A Case Study in a Mid-Atlantic Temperate Forest
Shen et al. · 2016 · PLoS ONE · cited 34×
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Linking White‐Tailed Deer Density, Nutrition, and Vegetation in a Stochastic Environment
DeYoung et al. · 2019 · Wildlife Monographs · cited 34×
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White‐tailed deer as the last megafauna dispersing seeds in Neotropical dry forests: the role of fruit and seed traits
Jara‐Guerrero et al. · 2017 · Biotropica · cited 31×
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Alterations in gut microbiota linked to provenance, sex, and chronic wasting disease in white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus)
Minich et al. · 2021 · Scientific Reports · cited 30×
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White‐tailed Deer as a Taphonomic Agent: Photographic Evidence of White‐tailed Deer Gnawing on Human Bone
Meckel, McDaneld & Wescott · 2017 · Journal of Forensic Sciences · cited 27×
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Effects of forest canopy gaps on the ground‐layer plant community depend on deer: Evidence from a controlled experiment
Burton et al. · 2020 · Journal of Vegetation Science · cited 26×
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Independent Effects of Invasive Shrubs and Deer Herbivory on Plant Community Dynamics
Ward, Williams & Linske · 2016 · Forests · cited 25×
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Contributions of digestive plasticity to the ability of white-tailed deer to cope with a low-quality diet
Bonin, Tremblay & Côté · 2016 · Journal of Mammalogy · cited 25×
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White-tailed deer browse on an invasive shrub with extended leaf phenology meets assumptions of an apparent competition hypothesis
Martinod & Gorchov · 2017 · AoB Plants · cited 25×
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Conservation Reserve Program is a key element for managing white-tailed deer populations at multiple spatial scales
Nagy‐Reis et al. · 2019 · Journal of Environmental Management · cited 24×
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Spatial correlations between browsing on balsam fir by white‐tailed deer and the nutritional value of neighboring winter forage
Champagne et al. · 2018 · Ecology and Evolution · cited 24×
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Does white-tailed deer density affect tree stocking in forests of the Eastern United States?
Hanberry & Abrams · 2019 · Ecological Processes · cited 23×
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