Title:

Biomass and nutritional qualities of six regenerating hardwood species in the Allegheny hardwood forest type

Author(s):

Glover, Laurel M.; Volponi, Sabrina N.; Royo, Alejandro A.; Johnstone-Yellin, Tamara L.

Publication Year:

2023

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Glover, Laurel M.; Volponi, Sabrina N.; Royo, Alejandro R.; Johnstone-Yellin, Tamara L. 2023. Biomass and nutritional qualities of six regenerating hardwood species in the Allegheny hardwood forest type. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2023-0058

Abstract:

Herbivores alter plant quantity and quality through direct tissue consumption and indirectly via the structural and chemical allocational strategies plants deploy in response to herbivory. This data publication provides tabular data containing experimental evidence of how white-tailed deer browsing alters their forage resource and, ultimately, their nutritional carrying capacity. Using a large-scale experiment that manipulated deer access (fenced versus unfenced plots), we tested whether browsing altered the nutritional quality and biomass of six regenerating hardwood species (red maple, American beech, birch species, pin cherry, and black cherry), as well as the nutritional carrying capacity using summer (June-August) 2017 data from sixteen sites in early-successional hardwood forests of Pennsylvania, USA. Data include browsable biomass and estimated nutritional carrying capacity (i.e., deer days per hectare) for each site, averaged across these six dominant species as well as for just pin cherry. Also included is browsable biomass for both stem and leaf tissue as well as average nutritional quality data (neutral detergent fiber, dry matter digestibility, and digestible protein) for each of these six dominant species at each site.

Keywords:

biota; Ecology, Ecosystems, & Environment; Plant ecology; Animal ecology; Wildlife (or Fauna); Mammals; seedlings; nutrition; browsing; herbivory; white-tailed deer; Odocoileus virginianus; carrying capacity; digestible protein; dry matter digestibility; neutral detergent fiber; Pennsylvania; Allegheny High Plateau Region

Related publications:

• Glover, Laurel M.; Volponi, Sabrina N.; Royo, Alejandro A.; Johnstone-Yellin, Tamara L. Unknown. Effect of exclosures on the nutritional value of six species of hardwoods for white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) in the Pennsylvania Allegheny Forest. Journal of Fish and Wildlife Management. [In review].
• Morgan, Quinn; Johnstone-Yellin, Tamara L.; Pinchot, Cornelia C.; Peters, Matthew; Royo, Alejandro A. 2018. Partitioning and predicting forage biomass from total aboveground biomass of regenerating tree species using dimensional analyses. Canadian Journal of Forest Research. 49(3): 309-316. https://doi.org/10.1139/cjfr-2018-0119 https://research.fs.usda.gov/treesearch/57697
• Royo, Alejando A.; Kramer, David W.; Miller, Karl V.; Nibbelink, Nathan P.; Stout, Susan L. 2017. Spatio-temporal variation in foodscapes modifies deer browsing impact on vegetation. Landscape Ecology. 32(12): 2281-2295. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10980-017-0568-x https://research.fs.usda.gov/treesearch/55499

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