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Impact of wild ungulates on forest regeneration and tree composition of mountain forests in the western Italian Alps.
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Browsing and bark stripping are always highly selective, whilst a difference between red and roe deer was found in relation to fraying damage, and the lethality of damage resulting from browsing is nil with low densities of ungulates, whereas it increases rapidly with good correlation when ungulate densities are high.About:
This article is published in Forest Ecology and Management.The article was published on 1996-11-01. It has received 156 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Ungulate & Abies alba.read more
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Potential impact of climate change on vegetation in the European Alps: A review
TL;DR: Based on conclusions drawn from general climatic impact assessmentin mountain regions, a review synthesizes results relevant to the European Alps published mainly from 1994 onward in the fields of population genetics, ecophysiology, phenology, phytogeography, modeling, paleoecology and vegetation dynamics as discussed by the authors.
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Integrity, stability and management of protection forests in the European Alps
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors proposed that forest ecosystem research should shift focus from forest ecosystem dynamics to the geo-ecosystem functioning of protection forests, including the effects of natural and human disturbances.
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Ungulate browsing on silver fir (Abies alba) in the Swiss Alps: beliefs in search of supporting data
Josef Senn,Werner Suter +1 more
TL;DR: If silver fir is dependent on rare ‘windows of opportunity’, wildlife management would also have to abandon the view that strong fluctuations in ungulate populations are to be prevented, and only a sound understanding of tree population dynamics will help to solve this ‘forest-wildlife conflict’.
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Holocene treeline shifts and monsoon variability in the Hengduan Mountains (southeastern Tibetan Plateau), implications from palynological investigations
Annette Kramer,Annette Kramer,Ulrike Herzschuh,Ulrike Herzschuh,Steffen Mischke,Chengjun Zhang +5 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a sediment core from Lake Naleng was analyzed for its pollen and charcoal content to detect vegetation, climate, and human activity changes on the southeastern Tibetan Plateau (TP) since the Pleistocene-Holocene transition (11.7-8.45m).
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Combining field and modelling techniques to assess rockfall dynamics on a protection forest hillslope in the European Alps
TL;DR: In this article, the authors applied a combined approach, using field and modelling techniques, to assess the determining factors for rockfall source areas, rockfall tracks and rockfall runout zones on a forested slope in mountainous terrain.
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A Review of Damage by Mammals in North Temperate Forests: 1. Deer
TL;DR: There is a need for improved density estimation methods to demonstrate the benefit of culling in different habitats, and computer models are proposed as an aid to damage prediction and forest protection decision making.
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Principal foods versus preferred foods and their relations to stocking rate and range condition
TL;DR: The importance of food preference ratings in range management, habitat evaluation and otherwise is reviewed and there are special values in the rating which results when the percentage in the diet is divided by the percentage availability.
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On repeated browsing of Scots pine saplings by moose (Alces alces).
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Bark Structure and Preferential Bark Utilisation by the African Elephant
John W. Malan,Abraham E. Van Wyk +1 more
TL;DR: This hypo thesis was tested for large riverine tree species in the Northern Tuli Game Reserve, Botswana and found that not all preferred species have strong and pliable barks, which indicates that factors other than bark fracture properties affect species preference.