A Migratory Ungulate Facilitates Cross-Boundary Nitrogen Transport in Forested Landscapes
| العنوان: | A Migratory Ungulate Facilitates Cross-Boundary Nitrogen Transport in Forested Landscapes |
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| المؤلفون: | Joseph K. Bump, Christopher R. Webster, Bryan D. Murray |
| المصدر: | Ecosystems. 17:1002-1013 |
| بيانات النشر: | Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2014. |
| سنة النشر: | 2014 |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Ungulate, Ecology, biology, Vegetation, Odocoileus, biology.organism_classification, Spatial heterogeneity, Habitat, Forest ecology, Spatial ecology, Environmental Chemistry, Environmental science, Ecosystem, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics |
| الوصف: | Forest ungulates impact ecosystems in a number of ways. Most studies have focused on consumptive effects that may cascade to other components of the ecosystem, and tend to be motivated by harvest management or the mitigation of undesired effects on vegetation. In this study, we demonstrate that white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus), a common forest ungulate in eastern North America, may directly increase availability and heterogeneity of nitrogen due to excretion of nitrogenous wastes. We conducted fecal pellet counts in 39 winter cover habitat patches, ranging in area from 0.04 to 59.6 ha, each spring for eight consecutive years. Pellet counts were used to develop allometric models of annual deer-associated nitrogen inputs at both whole-stand and fine ( |
| تدمد: | 1435-0629 1432-9840 |
| URL الوصول: | https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_________::beb291a5ce49d1906a14f8948016fc5f https://doi.org/10.1007/s10021-014-9796-y |
| حقوق: | CLOSED |
| رقم الأكسشن: | edsair.doi...........beb291a5ce49d1906a14f8948016fc5f |
| قاعدة البيانات: | OpenAIRE |
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