Neighbourhood effects modify deer herbivory on tree seedlings
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00027073%3A_____%2F21%3AN0000005" target="_blank" >RIV/00027073:_____/21:N0000005 - isvavai.cz</a>
Alternative codes found
RIV/62156489:43410/21:43919051
Result on the web
<a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10342-020-01339-8" target="_blank" >https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10342-020-01339-8</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10342-020-01339-8" target="_blank" >10.1007/s10342-020-01339-8</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Neighbourhood effects modify deer herbivory on tree seedlings
Original language description
As spatially fine-scale foraging decisions are intrinsic to browsing herbivores such as deer, the search and selection of individual plants may be shaped by the density of neighbouring plants. However, how such neighbourhood effects may modify herbivore foraging decisions at different spatial scales is largely unexplored. Our main goal was to examine deer foraging preferences for tree species and seedling sizes, and to ask whether the spatial relationship of unbrowsed and browsed seedlings was indicative of different neighbourhood effects at the spatial scale of seedling neighbourhoods. We used two data sets from an old-growth temperate forest: (1) a seedling inventory and (2) fully mapped transect data, and applied a generalized linear mixed model and spatial point pattern analyses, respectively. We found that neighbourhood effects modified deer foraging behaviour depending on the proximity, density and species identity of neighbours, which, in turn, determined the strength and spatial extent of browsing impacts on tree seedlings. While sycamore maple seedlings experienced the highest levels of deer selectivity, deer were selective for European beech seedlings only within short distances. Beyond these distances, beech seedlings were browsed only opportunistically, as conspecific neighbours ceased to modify deer selectivity. Beech seedlings were also more susceptible to browsing within short distances from silver fir seedlings, indicating an associational susceptibility. As fir seedlings experienced strong and extensive density-dependent deer selectivity both near conspecific and beech neighbours, using such neighbourhood effects may not be a promising tool to prevent deer browsing on tree seedlings at the spatial scale of seedling neighbourhoods.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
40102 - Forestry
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/GA20-17282S" target="_blank" >GA20-17282S: SCALING OF BIOTIC INTERACTIONS IN TEMPERATE AND TROPICAL FOREST</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
Others
Publication year
2021
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
European Journal of Forest Research
ISSN
1612-4669
e-ISSN
1612-4677
Volume of the periodical
140
Issue of the periodical within the volume
2
Country of publishing house
US - UNITED STATES
Number of pages
15
Pages from-to
403-417
UT code for WoS article
000604488800001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85098684894