Cervid Exclusion Alters Boreal Forest Properties with Little Cascading Impacts on Soils

• Published in: Ecosystems
• Main Authors: Kolstad, Anders Lorentzen, Austrheim, Gunnar, Solberg, Erling J., Venete, Aurel M. A., Woodin, Sarah J., Speed, James D. M.
• Other Authors: University of Aberdeen.Biological Sciences
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: Alces alces; Cervid; boreal forest; herbivory; Norway; Bayesian Network; nitrogen availability; tea bag index; carbon stocks; QH301 Biology; QH301
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/2164/11425; https://doi.org/10.1007/s10021-017-0202-4

We wish to thank Marc Daverdin for helping with the fieldwork and with database management, Winta Berhie Gebreyohanis for helping with fieldwork and the calibration of the biomass models and Marte Fandrem for helping with fieldwork. Then we wish to thank the numerous landowners who let us use their forests for this long-term experiment. Finally, we are grateful to the two anonymous reviewers who gave insightful and critical feedback that helped us to improve this paper. The establishment of the experimental design and the field work was funded by the Research Council of Norway Environment 2015 programme (Project 184036), the Norwegian Environment Agency and Nord- and Sør-Trøndelag County Administration. Peer reviewed