Reduction in biomass of freshwater arctic vegetation by foraging and nesting hyperabundant herbivores shows recovery ...
Arctic-nesting geese are specialist herbivores of grasses and sedges (collectively, graminoids). Under moderate grazing pressure, these migratory herbivores can create and maintain arctic grazing lawns with high nutritional content and low aboveground biomass. Nutrient and energy subsidies from sout...
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ftdatacite:10.5061/dryad.wpzgmsbqf 2023-12-31T10:02:45+01:00 Reduction in biomass of freshwater arctic vegetation by foraging and nesting hyperabundant herbivores shows recovery ... Kellett, Dana Kellett, Dana Alisauskas, Ray 2022 https://dx.doi.org/10.5061/dryad.wpzgmsbqf https://datadryad.org/stash/dataset/doi:10.5061/dryad.wpzgmsbqf en eng Dryad Creative Commons Zero v1.0 Universal https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode cc0-1.0 FOS Biological sciences Dataset dataset 2022 ftdatacite https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.wpzgmsbqf 2023-12-01T12:06:09Z Arctic-nesting geese are specialist herbivores of grasses and sedges (collectively, graminoids). Under moderate grazing pressure, these migratory herbivores can create and maintain arctic grazing lawns with high nutritional content and low aboveground biomass. Nutrient and energy subsidies from southern agricultural landscapes during winter have improved survival among populations of Ross’s (Anser rossii) and lesser snow geese (Anser caerulescens caerulescens), leading to marked population growth. Resulting goose hyperabundance has raised conservation concern for resilience of arctic ecosystems to withstand cumulative and intense pressures of herbivory and nest construction. We used both design-based (experimental herbivore exclosures) and model-based methods to investigate changes to plant community structure in direct response to foraging and nesting by these species within the Queen Maud Gulf (Ahiak) Migratory Bird Sanctuary, Nunavut, Canada. Annual nest construction and foraging by up to ~1.3 million ... Dataset Arctic Nunavut Queen Maud Gulf DataCite Metadata Store (German National Library of Science and Technology) |
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Arctic-nesting geese are specialist herbivores of grasses and sedges (collectively, graminoids). Under moderate grazing pressure, these migratory herbivores can create and maintain arctic grazing lawns with high nutritional content and low aboveground biomass. Nutrient and energy subsidies from southern agricultural landscapes during winter have improved survival among populations of Ross’s (Anser rossii) and lesser snow geese (Anser caerulescens caerulescens), leading to marked population growth. Resulting goose hyperabundance has raised conservation concern for resilience of arctic ecosystems to withstand cumulative and intense pressures of herbivory and nest construction. We used both design-based (experimental herbivore exclosures) and model-based methods to investigate changes to plant community structure in direct response to foraging and nesting by these species within the Queen Maud Gulf (Ahiak) Migratory Bird Sanctuary, Nunavut, Canada. Annual nest construction and foraging by up to ~1.3 million ... |
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Reduction in biomass of freshwater arctic vegetation by foraging and nesting hyperabundant herbivores shows recovery ... |
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Reduction in biomass of freshwater arctic vegetation by foraging and nesting hyperabundant herbivores shows recovery ... |
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Reduction in biomass of freshwater arctic vegetation by foraging and nesting hyperabundant herbivores shows recovery ... |
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Reduction in biomass of freshwater arctic vegetation by foraging and nesting hyperabundant herbivores shows recovery ... |
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Reduction in biomass of freshwater arctic vegetation by foraging and nesting hyperabundant herbivores shows recovery ... |
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reduction in biomass of freshwater arctic vegetation by foraging and nesting hyperabundant herbivores shows recovery ... |
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