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Forest management and cervid herbivory data from Western Oregon, USA, 2012 (Community Data)

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Publication Date
Start Date
2012-07-02
End Date
2012-08-21

Citation

Stokely, T.D., Verschuyl, J.P., Hagar, J.C., and Betts, M.G., 2018, Forest management and cervid herbivory data from Western Oregon, USA, 2012: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/F7H1307W.

Summary

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 at the scale of [...]

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Purpose

The data were collected to test the relative interactions between intensive forest management and deer and elk herbivory on plant community structure and composition as part of the Intensive Forest Management and Biodiversity research collaborative.

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