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Dan Townsend's Research Program |
| Current Research: For the past dozen years my main research focus has been on (1) how severe overbrowsing by white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) is impacting the ecological dynamics of northern hardwood forests, and (2) how recovery of forests might occur when and if deer populations are returned to ecologically sustainable levels. |
| Forest community level analyses in 1991-92 revealed an understory virtually devoid of herbs and of woody regeneration. |
| My contribution to a 1999 CONFERENCE ON THE IMPACT OF DEER ON THE BIODIVERSITY AND ECONOMY OF THE STATE OF PENNSYLVANIA Conference proceedings (from the Audubon Pennsylvania website) |
| Two deer exclosures, each of 0.7 hectares (about 1.3 acres), were constructed in early 1995 at the Lacawac Sanctuary in Lake Ariel (Wayne Co.) Pennsylvania. I have been studying the |
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