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Evidence review: how effective are alternatives to plastic tree shelters for establishing new native trees and woodland?

Published online: 22 Jan 2022

Published by: Woodland Trust

Authors: Bavin, S.

Content type: Reports

1. In recent decades, plastic tree shelters have been used to great effect to provide protection to individual planted trees in created woodlands. How...

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The effects of changing land use and browsing on aspen abundance and regeneration: a 50-year perspective from Sweden.

Published online: 13 Apr 2011

Authors: Edenius, L. & Ericsson, G. & Kempe, G. & Bergström, R. & Danell, K.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Management of trees with high conservation value under altered land use is challenging. This applies to European aspen Populus tremula, a keystone tre...

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Complementary impacts of small rodents and semi-domesticated ungulates limit tall shrub expansion in the tundra.

Published online: 05 Feb 2014

Authors: Ravolainen, V. T. & Bråthen, K. A. & Yoccoz, N. G. & Nguyen, J. K. & Ims, R. A.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

While shrubs appear to be expanding in Arctic tundra due to climatic warming, patches of tall shrubs in riparian habitats are most likely to colonize ...

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Woody shrubs and herbivory influence tree encroachment in the sandplain heathlands of southwestern Australia.

Published online: 07 Apr 2010

Authors: Maher, K. A. & Hobbs, R. J. & Yates, C. J.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Tree encroachment into herbaceous and shrub communities is a common phenomenon world-wide. Encroachment of the tree Allocasuarina huegeliana in sandpl...

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Recent changes in mountain birch forest structure and understory vegetation depend on the seasonal timing of reindeer grazing.

Published online: 03 Jun 2021

Authors: Stark, S. & Ylänne, H. & Kumpula, J.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Subarctic forest-tundra ecotones dominated by mountain birch (Betula pubescens ssp. czerepanovii) are an important habitat for semi-domestic reindeer ...

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Liability of saplings to browsing on a red deer range in the Scottish Highlands.

Published online: 01 Jan 1982

Authors: Miller, G. R. & Kinnaird, J. W. & Cummins, R. P.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

The amount and seasonality of browsing on experimentally planted saplings (<30 cm tall) of Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris), silver birch (Betula pend...

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The long-term impacts of deer herbivory in determining temperate forest stand and canopy structural complexity.

Published online: 29 Apr 2022

Authors: Reed, S. P. & Royo, A. A. & Fotis, A. T. & Knight, K. S. & Flower, C. E. & Curtis, P. S.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Ungulates place immense consumptive pressure on forest vegetation globally, leaving legacies of reduced biodiversity and simplified vegetative structu...

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The effect of resource depletion on the feeding behaviour of a browser: winter foraging by moose on Scots pine.

Published online: 31 Aug 1991

Authors: Edenius, L.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

The foraging dynamics of the moose (Alces alces) were studied in trials near Umeå, Sweden in winter 1988-89 in the following artificial stands set up ...

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Changes in the biomass and productivity of woodlands in the Sengwa wildlife research area, Zimbabwe.

Published online: 01 Jan 1981

Authors: Guy, P. R.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Changes in biomass and annual production measured from 1972 to 1976 in four woodlands, the miombo, the Sengwa/Lutope riverine, the Manyoni riverine an...

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Impacts of an invasive herbivore on indigenous forests.

Published online: 19 Dec 2012

Authors: Gormley, A. M. & Holland, E. P. & Pech, R. P. & Thomson, C. & Reddiex, B.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Invasive herbivores can have large negative impacts on natural ecosystems. Management of invasive populations often requires frequent, broadscale, exp...

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