• Junipers enable heavily browsed rowan saplings to escape ungulates in boreal forest 

      Hegland, Stein Joar; Rydgren, Knut; Lilleeng, Marte Synnøve; Moe, Stein Ragnar; Gillespie, Mark Andrew Kusk (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      Recent increases in ungulate herbivore populations have intensified browsing pressure in northern forest ecosystems. High browsing pressure affects recruitment into tree populations and saplings are among the most impacted ...
    • Old-growth forest floor richness increases with red deer herbivory intensity 

      Hegland, Stein Joar; Lilleeng, Marte Synnøve; Moe, Stein Ragnar (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2013)
      Herbivory is one of the most important biotic disturbance types globally and is important for community structure and composition through species filtering. In northern forest ecosystems the population densities of ...
    • Red deer mediate spatial and temporal plant heterogeneity in boreal forests 

      Lilleeng, Marte Synnøve; Hegland, Stein Joar; Rydgren, Knut; Moe, Stein Ragnar (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)
      Selective herbivory can influence both spatial and temporal vegetation heterogeneity. For example, many northern European populations of free-ranging ungulates have reached unprecedented levels, which can influence plant ...