Pennsylvania Project
Developing An Adaptive Management Approach For Meeting Deer And Forest Management Objectives
October 2011 - September 2013
Personnel
Participating Agencies
- Cooperative Research Units
Forest vegetation conditions are affected by a number of factors, such as deer browsing, light conditions, soil characteristics, competing vegetation, and seed sources. All these factors are considered by foresters when making forest management decisions but not in a formal manner. In addition, there is controversy regarding which factor may have the greatest influence on future forest conditions. This project will formalize decision models to learn about the relative effect of key factors that influence future vegetation conditions on state forests. In addition, management experiments will be identified that may help learn faster about the response of forest vegetation conditions to management actions.
| Presentations | Presentation Date |
|---|---|
| Trowbridge, J., D. R. Diefenbach, T. A. Marques, T. M. McConnell, A. Van Buskirk, C. S. Rosenberry, W. D. Walter, and K. Lamp. Accounting for animal density gradients in distance sampling surveys. Southeast Deer Study Group Meeting, February 2024, Shepherdstown, WV. | February 2024 |
| Trowbridge, J., D. R. Diefenbach, T. A. Marques, T. M. McConnell, A. Van Buskirk, C. S. Rosenberry, W. D. Walter, and K. Lamp. Accounting for animal density gradients in distance sampling surveys. Pennsylvania Chapter of The Wildlife Society, March 2024, State College, PA | March 2024 |
| Diefenbach, D. R., D. R. Begley-Miller, M. E. McDill, P. J. Drohan, P. D. Jones, B. D. Wallingford, C. S. Rosenberry, E. H. Domoto, and A. E. Sabo. Effect of deer herbivory, soil conditions, and competing vegetation on understory plant growth in an oak-hickory forest ecosystem. Southeast Deer Study Group Meeting, February 2024, Shepherdstown, WV. | February 2024 |