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Land management practices often directly alter vegetation structure and composition, but the degree to which ecological processes such as herbivory interact with management to influence biodiversity is less well understood. We hypothesized that intensive forest management and large herbivores have compounding effects on early-seral plant communities and plantation establishment (i.e., tree survival and growth), and the degree of such effects is dependent on the intensity of management practices. We established 225 m2 wild ungulate (deer and elk) exclosures nested within a manipulated gradient of management intensity (no-spray Control, Light herbicide, Moderate herbicide and Intensive herbicide treatments), replicated...
Categories: Data;
Types: Citation;
Tags: Ecology,
Lincoln County, Oregon,
Oregon,
Oregon Coast Range,
Pacific Northwest, All tags...
Polk County, Oregon,
Tillamook County, Oregon,
USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC),
Wildlife,
Yamhill County, Oregon,
biodiversity,
community,
deer,
early-seral,
elk,
forage,
forestry,
herbicides,
herbivory,
management,
plantation,
silviculture,
trophic, Fewer tags
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Land management practices often directly alter vegetation structure and composition, but the degree to which ecological processes such as herbivory interact with management to influence biodiversity is less well understood. We hypothesized that intensive forest management and large herbivores have compounding effects on early-seral plant communities and plantation establishment (i.e., tree survival and growth), and the degree of such effects is dependent on the intensity of management practices. We established 225 m2 wild ungulate (deer and elk) exclosures nested within a manipulated gradient of management intensity (no-spray Control, Light herbicide, Moderate herbicide and Intensive herbicide treatments), replicated...
Categories: Data;
Types: Citation;
Tags: Lincoln County, Oregon,
Oregon,
Oregon Coast Range,
Pacific Northwest,
Polk County, Oregon, All tags...
Tillamook County, Oregon,
Yamhill County, Oregon,
biodiversity,
community,
deer,
early-seral,
elk,
forage,
forestry,
herbicides,
herbivory,
management,
plantation,
silviculture,
trophic, Fewer tags
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Abstract (from Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution): Climate and land-use change are predicted to lead to widespread changes in population dynamics, but quantitative predictions on the relative effects of these stressors have not yet been examined empirically. We analyzed historical abundance data of 110 terrestrial bird species sampled from 1983 to 2010 along 406 Breeding Bird Survey (BBS) across the western USA. Using boosted-regression trees, we modeled bird abundance at the beginning of this interval as a function of (1) climate variables, (2) Landsat-derived landcover data, (3) the additive and interactive effects of climate and land-cover variables. We evaluated the capacity of each model set to predict observed...
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Land management practices often directly alter vegetation structure and composition, but the degree to which ecological processes such as herbivory interact with management to influence biodiversity is less well understood. We hypothesized that intensive forest management and large herbivores have compounding effects on early-seral plant communities and plantation establishment (i.e., tree survival and growth), and the degree of such effects is dependent on the intensity of management practices. We established 225 m2 wild ungulate (deer and elk) exclosures nested within a manipulated gradient of management intensity (no-spray Control, Light herbicide, Moderate herbicide and Intensive herbicide treatments), replicated...
Categories: Data;
Types: Citation;
Tags: Oregon,
Pacific Northwest,
biodiversity,
cervidae,
community, All tags...
deer,
early-seral,
elk,
forage,
forestry,
herbicides,
herbivory,
management,
plantation,
silviculture,
trophic,
ungulate, Fewer tags
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