Ecological Research

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  Ecological Research will be published by Wiley
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• STATISTICS

  Vol. 32 (2017)
  No. submitted articles: 536
  No. accepted articles: 126
  

  

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  (vol. 33, issue 5)
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  206 (111–431)
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SPECIAL VIRTUAL ISSUE

• Ecological aspects of management of overabundant deer populations

• Joint contents from "Ecological Research" and the "Journal of Forest Research"
• Edited by Hayato Iijima
• In recent years, deer have been increasing in abundance all over the world (Cote et al. 2004). As a result, there have been increases in the change of species composition or disappearance of understory vegetation (Suzuki et al. 2008), the economic loss of planted trees and crops by deer browsing and debarking, the expansion of deer distribution to habitats they have not inhabited until recently (Nagaike 2012), and collisions of vehicles with deer. To reduce such impacts, three deer management approaches have been adopted; population management (to control wildlife abundance or density at a desirable level), habitat management (to create favorable or unfavorable habitats for target wildlife), and damage management (to prevent deer browsing or debarking on any targets like crops, planted trees, and natural vegetation). Furthermore, to reduce deer impact successfully, clear goals of management should be set. In this virtual issue, we introduce excellent articles on the three types of management and setting management goals. Though these articles mainly focus on sika deer (Cervus nippon), the insights they yield will also contribute to the management of other deer species.
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• Articles from Ecological Research

Population management
Uno H, Kaji K, Saitoh T, Matsuda H, Hirakawa H, Yamamura K, Tamada K (2006)
Evaluation of relative density indices for sika deer in eastern Hokkaido, Japan.
Habitat management
Takatsuki S (1989)
Edge effects created by clear-cutting on habitat use by sika deer on Mt. Goyo, northern Honshu, Japan.
Jiang G, Ma J, Zhang M, Stott P (2009)
Multiple spatial-scale resource selection function models in relation to human disturbance for moose in northeastern China.
Torres RT, Carvalho JC, Panzacchi M, Linnell JDC, Fonseca C (2011)
Comparative use of forest habitats by roe deer and moose in a human-modified landscape in southeastern Norway during winter.
Ferron ES, Verheyden H, Hummel J, Cargnelutti B, Lourtet B, Merlet J, Gonzalez-Candela M, Angibault JM, Hewison AJM, Clauss M (2012)
Digestive plasticity as a response to woodland fragmentation in roe deer.
Damage management
Ito H, Hino T (2005)
How do deer affect tree seedlings on a dwarf bamboo-dominated forest floor?
Monitoring
Uno H, Kaji K, Saitoh T, Matsuda H, Hirakawa H, Yamamura K, Tamada K (2006)
Evaluation of relative density indices for sika deer in eastern Hokkaido, Japan. (Also listed in "Population management" section.)
Suzuki M, Miyashita T, Kabaya H, Ochiai K, Asada M, Tange T (2008)
Deer density affects ground-layer vegetation differently in conifer plantations and hardwood forests on the Boso Peninsula, Japan.
Nagaike T (2012)
Effects of browsing by sika deer (Cervus nippon) on subalpine vegetation at Mt. Kita, central Japan.
Nishizawa K, Tatsumi S, Kitagawa R, Mori AS (2016)
Deer herbivory affects the functional diversity of forest floor plants via changes in competition-mediated assembly rules.

• Articles from Journal of Forest Research

Population management
Enoki T, Yabe T, Koizumi T (2016)
Changes in spatial patterns of sika deer distribution and herbivory of planted seedlings: a comparison before and after deer population control by culling.
Damage management
Kisanuki H, Nakasu M, Nakai A, Yurugi Y (2008)
Predicting the population dynamics of three understory broad-leaved evergreen species under the influence of Sika deer in primary and secondary forests of mid-western Japan.
Enoki T, Yabe T, Koizumi T (2016)
Changes in spatial patterns of sika deer distribution and herbivory of planted seedlings: a comparison before and after deer population control by culling. (Also listed in "Population management" section.)
Tamura A (2016)
Potential of soil seed banks in the ecological restoration of overgrazed floor vegetation in a cool-temperate old-growth damp forest in eastern Japan.
Setting appropriate goal of management
Fujiki D, Kishimoto Y, Sakata H (2010)
Assessing decline in physical structure of deciduous hardwood forest stands under sika deer grazing using shrub-layer vegetation cover.
Akashi N, Unno A, Terazawa K (2015)
Significance of woody browse preferences in evaluating the impact of sika deer browsing on tree seedlings.