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This means that a deer may eat all the reproductive and photosynthetic tissues at once, reducing the plant's height, photosynthetic capabilities, and reproductive output. [18] This is one example of how overbrowsing can lead to the loss of reproductive individuals in a population, and a lack of recruitment of young plants. Plants also differ in ...
The mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus) is a deer indigenous to western North America; ... and causing habitat destruction from overbrowsing of shrubs and forbs ...
Threats to T. recurvatum include habitat fragmentation and loss, overbrowsing by white-tailed deer, climate change, and invasive species. [12] [14] [19] The destruction of forests for logging and agricultural development has reduced the habitat available to T. recurvatum, although not to an extent which significantly threatens the species ...
His 2005 Science paper with graduate student Mary Ann Furedi [3] documented overbrowsing of Ginseng by white-tailed deer as a serious threat to long-term population viability; the paper was featured on NPR’s "All Things Considered", [4] Scientific American, [5] National Geographic, [6] and The New York Times. [7]
By the mid-1920s, many deer were starving to death. After a heated legal dispute between the federal government and the state of Arizona, hunting was once more permitted, to reduce the deer's numbers. Hunters were able to kill only a small fraction of the starving deer. The range itself was damaged, and its carrying capacity was greatly reduced.
The refuge is closed to the public with the exception of deer hunting; hunts of white-tailed deer was authorized beginning in 2002 in an attempt to control local deer populations and prevent overbrowsing, reduce deer–vehicle collisions along Virginia State Route 175, and prevent deer collisions with aircraft at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility. [5]
Seneca white deer inside the depot. The Seneca white deer are a rare herd of deer living within the confines of the former Seneca Army Depot in Seneca County, New York.When the 10,600-acre (43 km 2) depot was created in 1941, a 24-mile (39 km) fence was erected around its perimeter, isolating a small herd of white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus), some of which had white coats.
White-tailed deer are the normal host of the P. tenuis parasite and are immunologically adapted to its presence. Deer and P. tenuis have coadapted in an evolutionary arms race over time. Deer remain largely unaffected by the presence of P. tenuis because of the immunity they have built as a result of coadaptation.