Nature Communications (Dec 2022)

Divergent roles of herbivory in eutrophying forests

  • Josiane Segar,
  • Henrique M. Pereira,
  • Lander Baeten,
  • Markus Bernhardt-Römermann,
  • Pieter De Frenne,
  • Néstor Fernández,
  • Frank S. Gilliam,
  • Jonathan Lenoir,
  • Adrienne Ortmann-Ajkai,
  • Kris Verheyen,
  • Donald Waller,
  • Balázs Teleki,
  • Jörg Brunet,
  • Markéta Chudomelová,
  • Guillaume Decocq,
  • Thomas Dirnböck,
  • Radim Hédl,
  • Thilo Heinken,
  • Bogdan Jaroszewicz,
  • Martin Kopecký,
  • Martin Macek,
  • František Máliš,
  • Tobias Naaf,
  • Anna Orczewska,
  • Kamila Reczynska,
  • Wolfgang Schmidt,
  • Jan Šebesta,
  • Alina Stachurska-Swakoń,
  • Tibor Standovár,
  • Krzysztof Swierkosz,
  • Ondřej Vild,
  • Monika Wulf,
  • Ingmar R. Staude

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-35282-6
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Ungulate herbivory is an important driver of ecological change in forests. Here, the authors combine vegetation resurveys showing herbivory effects are highly dependent on soil eutrophication, promoting non-natives under high N-conditions, yet benefiting threatened species under low N-conditions.