Functional responses and resilience of boreal forest ecosystem after reduction of deer density.

The functional trait-based approach is increasingly used to predict responses of ecological communities to disturbances, but most studies target a single taxonomic group. Here, we assessed the resilience of a forest ecosystem to an overabundant herbivore population by assessing changes in 19 functio...

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Main Authors: Marianne Bachand, Stéphanie Pellerin, Marco Moretti, Isabelle Aubin, Jean-Pierre Tremblay, Steeve D Côté, Monique Poulin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3938752?pdf=render