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Climate change is the primary driver of white‐tailed deer ( Odocoileus virginianus ) range expansion at the northern extent of its range; land use is secondary
Dawe & Boutin · 2016 · Ecology and Evolution · cited 135×
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A regional assessment of white-tailed deer effects on plant invasion
Averill et al. · 2017 · AoB Plants · cited 87×
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Managing for diversity: harvest gap size drives complex light, vegetation, and deer herbivory impacts on tree seedlings
Walters et al. · 2016 · Ecosphere · cited 75×
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Persistent Spillback of Bovine Tuberculosis From White-Tailed Deer to Cattle in Michigan, USA: Status, Strategies, and Needs
VerCauteren, Lavelle & Campa · 2018 · Frontiers in Veterinary Science · cited 72×
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Fire‐mediated foraging tradeoffs in white‐tailed deer
Cherry, Warren & Conner · 2017 · Ecosphere · cited 58×
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Reviewing Fire, Climate, Deer, and Foundation Species as Drivers of Historically Open Oak and Pine Forests and Transition to Closed Forests
Hanberry et al. · 2020 · Frontiers in Forests and Global Change · cited 55×
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Evaluating the Mechanisms of Landscape Change on White‐Tailed Deer Populations
Laurent et al. · 2020 · Journal of Wildlife Management · cited 51×
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Survival of white‐tailed deer neonates in Louisiana
Shuman et al. · 2017 · Journal of Wildlife Management · cited 50×
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Cumulative effects of human footprint, natural features and predation risk best predict seasonal resource selection by white-tailed deer
Darlington et al. · 2022 · Scientific Reports · cited 50×
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Landscape heterogeneity reduces coyote predation on white‐tailed deer fawns
Gulsby et al. · 2017 · Journal of Wildlife Management · cited 49×
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Red oak seedlings as indicators of deer browse pressure: Gauging the outcome of different white‐tailed deer management approaches
Blossey et al. · 2019 · Ecology and Evolution · cited 49×
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Influence of invasive shrubs and deer browsing on regeneration in temperate deciduous forests
Ward, Williams & Linske · 2017 · Canadian Journal of Forest Research · cited 48×
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Deer‐mediated changes in environment compound the direct impacts of herbivory on understorey plant communities
Sabo et al. · 2017 · Journal of Ecology · cited 47×
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Deer movement and resource selection during Hurricane Irma: implications for extreme climatic events and wildlife
Abernathy et al. · 2019 · Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences · cited 44×
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Differences in dietary niche and foraging behavior of sympatric mule and white‐tailed deer
Berry et al. · 2019 · Ecosphere · cited 42×
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Stasis in forest regeneration following deer exclusion and understory gap creation: A 10‐year experiment
Royo & Carson · 2022 · Ecological Applications · cited 41×
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Overabundant deer and invasive plants drive widespread regeneration debt in eastern United States national parks
Miller et al. · 2023 · Ecological Applications · cited 41×
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Northward bound: the distribution of white-tailed deer in Ontario under a changing climate
Kennedy-Slaney et al. · 2018 · Wildlife Research · cited 40×
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Does landscape connectivity shape local and global social network structure in white-tailed deer?
Koen et al. · 2017 · PLoS ONE · cited 38×
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Long-Term Effects of White-Tailed Deer Exclusion on the Invasion of Exotic Plants: A Case Study in a Mid-Atlantic Temperate Forest
Shen et al. · 2016 · PLoS ONE · cited 34×
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