Andrea Dávalos

TL;DR: After 150 years of residence time in North America, Alliaria petiolata populations have developed striking differences in their responses to local climates and stratification requirements suggesting that a complex interplay of pre-adaptation, rapid evolutionary changes, and phenotypic plasticity result in locally adapted populations.

TL;DR: The effectiveness of fertility control and hunting in reducing deer impacts at Cornell University was evaluated, resulting in a substantial reduction in the deer population and a linear decline in browse rates as a function of spring deer abundance.

TL;DR: It is time to acknowledge and overcome conservation's deep-seated systemic racism, which has historically marginalized Black, Indigenous and people of colour (BIPOC) communities and continues to do so as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: It may be most effective for managers to first reduce deer populations before investing in efforts to reduce invasive populations (except when invasions are at an early stage), and traditional approaches to managing deer should be rethink and reform to better integrate land vegetation with wildlife management.

TL;DR: A standardized metric to measure impacts of high white-tailed deer populations using red oak seedlings showed that deer browse reduced oak seedling survival and growth far more than invasive plants or invasive earthworms.