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DOI	10.1016/j.foreco.2024.121710
	Winter diet overlap among moose, roe deer and red deer in coniferous and mixed forests depends on snow cover depth
	Ratkiewicz, Miroslaw; Coissac, Eric; Swislocka, Magdalena; Czajkowska, Magdalena; Kowalczyk, Rafal; Czernik, Marta; Taberlet, Pierre
发表日期	2024
ISSN	0378-1127
EISSN	1872-7042
起始页码	556
卷号	556
英文摘要	Several sympatric deer species that utilize the same, limited resources during the lean season may compete for food resources and thus strongly affect forest regeneration and increase wildlife-forestry conflicts. Using fecal DNA metabarcoding, we studied winter diet compositions, food preferences, and dietary niche partitioning among moose, roe deer, and red deer in NE Poland during harsh (snowy) and mild winters to test the competition avoidance hypothesis. In coniferous and mixed forests, these three species exhibited browsing strategy, as their winter diets were dominated by a high proportion of woody browse (>99% of plant DNA sequences in moose, >90% in roe deer, and >79% in red deer fecal samples) and contained almost no grasses. Dietary richness per fecal sample was the lowest for moose (9.8), higher for roe deer (19.6), and the highest for red deer (26.3), as it was also composed of different forbs and ferns. The studied cervids were selective and strongly preferred Scots pine, Maleae (incl. rowan tree), Salix sp. and the ericaceous dwarf shrubs, and avoided Norway spruce, silver birch, oak, bramble, and alder buckthorn. During mild winters, increased browsing by roe deer and red deer on the ericaceous dwarf shrubs resulted in the overlap of their diets. When the snow cover depth exceeded 10 cm, these two deer species effectively partitioned their diets, in line with the hypothesis of competition avoidance for food resources. During harsh winter, however, the diets of roe deer and red deer overlapped to a larger extent with the moose 'conifer diet', resulting in possible competition for food. In effect, the joint browsing of native European deer species on young coniferous trees during harsh winter was larger than that during mild winters. The same could be the case in managed forests where available forage is usually scarce. These findings may have profound consequences for future forest and ungulate management under ongoing climate change.
英文关键词	Dietary niche partitioning; Dietary species richness; Large herbivores; Browsing; Cervids
语种	英语
WOS研究方向	Forestry
WOS类目	Forestry
WOS记录号	WOS:001185910400001
来源期刊	FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/304246
作者单位	University of Bialystok; Communaute Universite Grenoble Alpes; Universite Grenoble Alpes (UGA); Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS); Universite Savoie Mont Blanc; Polish Academy of Sciences; Mammal Research Institute of the Polish Academy of Sciences
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Ratkiewicz, Miroslaw,Coissac, Eric,Swislocka, Magdalena,et al. Winter diet overlap among moose, roe deer and red deer in coniferous and mixed forests depends on snow cover depth[J],2024,556.
APA	Ratkiewicz, Miroslaw.,Coissac, Eric.,Swislocka, Magdalena.,Czajkowska, Magdalena.,Kowalczyk, Rafal.,...&Taberlet, Pierre.(2024).Winter diet overlap among moose, roe deer and red deer in coniferous and mixed forests depends on snow cover depth.FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT,556.
MLA	Ratkiewicz, Miroslaw,et al."Winter diet overlap among moose, roe deer and red deer in coniferous and mixed forests depends on snow cover depth".FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT 556(2024).