Plant interactions play a key role in forest ecosystem dynamics. The tallest plants, namely
the overstorey trees, are obvious major drivers, particularly in competition for light. This …

Natural disturbances are critical ecosystem processes, with both ecological and
socioeconomic benefits and disadvantages. Large herbivores are natural disturbances that …

Large wild ungulates are a major biotic factor shaping plant communities. They influence
species abundance and occurrence directly by herbivory and plant dispersal, or indirectly by …

Aims Selective browsing can be a chronic disturbance that reduces the survival, growth and
reproduction of individual species and shapes the composition and structure of plant …

Beavers can change habitat composition by cutting down trees, digging, and damming
activities, thereby affecting species richness and abundance. Although there is large body of …

Context Ungulate browsers often alter plant composition and reduce diversity in forests
worldwide, yet our ability to predict browse impact on vegetation remains equivocal. Theory …

Deer are the most abundant large herbivores in temperate and boreal forests across the
Northern Hemisphere. They are ecosystem engineers known to alter understory vegetation …

Herbivores are constitutive elements of most terrestrial ecosystems. Understanding effects of
herbivory on ecosystem dynamics is thus a major, albeit challenging task in community …

Large herbivores can exert top‐down control on terrestrial plant communities, but the
magnitude, direction, and scale dependency of their impacts remain equivocal, especially in …

Natural disturbances can maintain forest diversity by creating a heterogeneous resource
landscape, which can contribute to coexistence of early-and late-successional species …