Neighbourhood effects modify deer herbivory on tree seedlings
Identifikátory výsledku
Kód výsledku v 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>
Nalezeny alternativní kódy
RIV/62156489:43410/21:43919051
Výsledek na webu
<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>
Alternativní jazyky
Jazyk výsledku
angličtina
Název v původním jazyce
Neighbourhood effects modify deer herbivory on tree seedlings
Popis výsledku v původním jazyce
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.
Název v anglickém jazyce
Neighbourhood effects modify deer herbivory on tree seedlings
Popis výsledku anglicky
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.
Klasifikace
Druh
J<sub>imp</sub> - Článek v periodiku v databázi Web of Science
CEP obor
—
OECD FORD obor
40102 - Forestry
Návaznosti výsledku
Projekt
<a href="/cs/project/GA20-17282S" target="_blank" >GA20-17282S: Účinky biotických interakcí v různých prostorových měřítkách v tropickém a temperátním lese</a><br>
Návaznosti
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
Ostatní
Rok uplatnění
2021
Kód důvěrnosti údajů
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Údaje specifické pro druh výsledku
Název periodika
European Journal of Forest Research
ISSN
1612-4669
e-ISSN
1612-4677
Svazek periodika
140
Číslo periodika v rámci svazku
2
Stát vydavatele periodika
US - Spojené státy americké
Počet stran výsledku
15
Strana od-do
403-417
Kód UT WoS článku
000604488800001
EID výsledku v databázi Scopus
2-s2.0-85098684894