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dc.contributor.authorTeurlings, Ivonne
dc.contributor.authorMelis, Claudia
dc.contributor.authorSkarpe, Christina
dc.contributor.authorLinnell, John Durrus
dc.date.accessioned2022-09-07T08:00:10Z
dc.date.available2022-09-07T08:00:10Z
dc.date.created2020-09-14T17:29:17Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.identifier.issn1424-2818
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/11250/3016185
dc.description.abstractThis study examines the extent to which above-ground trophic processes such as large carnivore predation on wild ungulates can cause cascading effects through the provision of carrion resources to below-ground ecosystem processes in the boreal forest of southeastern Norway. We measured the levels of 10 parameters in soil samples and 7 parameters in vegetation (wavy hair-grass, Avenella flexuosa, and bilberry, Vaccinium myrtillus) at 0, 0.5 and 2 m distance from 18 roe deer (Capreolus caprelous) carcasses killed by Eurasian lynx (Lynx lynx). We then compared these values to two control sites 20 m away from each carcass. Sampling was conducted 20–29 months after death. Neither soil nor vegetation samples showed a clear gradient in parameters (CN, NH4 +, NO3 −, P, PO4 −, Ca, K, Mg and Na) from the center of a carcass towards the periphery. Similarly, there was no difference in the effect on soil and vegetation between winter- and summer-killed carcasses. Our results contrast with that of other studies that simulate the effect of predation with whole carcasses and which often exclude scavengers through fencing. The lack of detectable effects after about two years is likely due to the small size of roe deer carcasses and the fact that most tissues are consumed by the predator and scavengers before decomposition.en_US
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.rightsNavngivelse 4.0 Internasjonal*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.no*
dc.subjectCapreolus capreolusen_US
dc.subjectcarrionen_US
dc.subjectdecompositionen_US
dc.subjectLynx lynxen_US
dc.subjectnitrogenen_US
dc.subjectnutrient recyclingen_US
dc.subjecttrophic cascadeen_US
dc.titleLack of Cascading Effects of Eurasian Lynx Predation on Roe Deer to Soil and Plant Nutrientsen_US
dc.typePeer revieweden_US
dc.typeJournal articleen_US
dc.description.versionpublishedVersionen_US
dc.subject.nsiVDP::Matematikk og Naturvitenskap: 400en_US
dc.source.volume12en_US
dc.source.journalDiversityen_US
dc.source.issue9en_US
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.3390/d12090352
dc.identifier.cristin1829889
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cristin.fulltextoriginal
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