Janet H. Rock

TL;DR: Comparisons between control and exclosure plots established after the deer population eruption indicate that recovery has been largely restricted to species that were able to persist under intense herbivory, suggesting continued impacts by deer on the plant community outside the exclosures.

TL;DR: It is suggested that chronic herbivory inhibits state transitions that could occur in response to intermittent disturbances, which reduce the abundance of the invader.

TL;DR: A relationship between the level of harvest and the negative impacts on populations of A. tricoccum is found, with limited population recovery in the 4 years following harvesting, and a 10% harvest once every 10 years would, on average, be a sustainablelevel of harvest for A.tricoccity in southern Appalachian forests.

TL;DR: In this article, the effects of a protected white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus Zimm.) population on forest plant communities in Cades Cove, Great Smoky Mountains National Park were examined.

TL;DR: The results suggest that indirect effects of herbivory might influence many components of belowground communities, including plant seedling and sapling abundance and performance and the richness of soil microarthropod communities.