{"id":188,"date":"2013-07-10T11:31:00","date_gmt":"2013-07-10T15:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/csi\/?p=188"},"modified":"2013-07-10T11:31:00","modified_gmt":"2013-07-10T15:31:00","slug":"white-tailed-deer-and-forest-ecology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/csi\/2013\/07\/10\/white-tailed-deer-and-forest-ecology\/","title":{"rendered":"White-tailed Deer and Forest Ecology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/csi\/files\/2013\/07\/2013-06-22-19-20-53-M-1_11.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-190 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/csi\/files\/2013\/07\/2013-06-22-19-20-53-M-1_11-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"448\" height=\"336\" srcset=\"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/csi\/files\/2013\/07\/2013-06-22-19-20-53-M-1_11-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/csi\/files\/2013\/07\/2013-06-22-19-20-53-M-1_11-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/csi\/files\/2013\/07\/2013-06-22-19-20-53-M-1_11.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 448px) 100vw, 448px\" \/><\/a>Check out this recent image from the current round of our compost experiment.\u00a0 Okay, they may be cute, but overabundant white-tailed deer are a problem in forests.\u00a0 Experiments where exclosures prevent deer from accessing certain forest plots (see\/hear a description of one such study at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2011\/06\/15\/137192604\/what-does-more-deer-mean-for-forests\">http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2011\/06\/15\/137192604\/what-does-more-deer-mean-for-forests<\/a>) have demonstrated that over-browsing by these herbivores can have a variety of negative impacts, including alteration of plant population structures, reduction of plant species diversity, and promotion of non-native, invasive plant species. \u00a0What options do we have to mitigate these adverse effects of deer in our human-influenced environment?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Check out this recent image from the current round of our compost experiment.\u00a0 Okay, they may be cute, but overabundant white-tailed deer are a problem in forests.\u00a0 Experiments where exclosures prevent deer from accessing certain forest plots (see\/hear a description of one such study at http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2011\/06\/15\/137192604\/what-does-more-deer-mean-for-forests) have demonstrated that over-browsing by these herbivores can have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":310,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/csi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/csi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/csi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/csi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/310"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/csi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/csi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":192,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/csi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188\/revisions\/192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/csi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/csi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/csi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}