Influence of browsing by white-tailed deer and snowshoe hare on vegetation at Acadia National Park, Maine
Saeki M. 1991. Influence of browsing by white-tailed deer and snowshoe hare on vegetation at Acadia National Park, Maine. University of Maine
FIELD WORK: 1989. Conducted a browse survey and studied browsing relationships, post-fire succession, and habitat selection of deer and hare. Notes herbivore abundance on Mount Desert Island and Isle au Haut. Also studied dietary quality using fecal crude protein. Inventoried vegetation within exclosures on Mount Desert Island and Isle au Haut. Notes that neither area is experiencing extensive browsing by hare or deer, and that deer browsing has decreased on Mount Desert Island and Isle au Haut since the last survey conducted in 1980-81 (Gilbert and Harrison, 1982a, 1982b) /STUDY LOCATIONS:/ /MOUNT DESERT ISLAND/Breakneck Ponds/Aunt Betty Pond/Precipice/Upper Hadlock Pond/Lower Hadlock Pond/ISLE AU HAUT/Eli Creek/Long Pond GIS-CATEGORY 3 ; Describes locations of exclosures in ANP
- Type
- Academic
- Authors
- Saeki, Midori
- Date of Issue
- 1991
- Publisher
- University of Maine
- Units
- ACAD
- Keywords
- Aunt Betty Pond, Breakneck Ponds, Browsing, Eli Creek, Exclosures, FIRE, Fire Ecology, Food, Isle Au Haut, Long Pond, Lower Hadlock Pond, Mammals, Mount Desert Island, Permanent Plots, permanent transects, Plants, Precipice, thesis, Upper Hadlock Pond