[HTML][HTML] Selection rankings of woody species for white-tailed deer vary with browse intensity and landscape context within the Central Hardwood Forest Region

RD Sample, ZJ Delisle, JM Pierce, RK Swihart… - Forest Ecology and …, 2023 - Elsevier
White-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) selection of woody species can be influenced by
deer densities, food availability, and local and regional landscape characteristics …

Killing time in cover crops? Artificial perches promote field use by raptors

ME Zagorski, RK Swihart - Annals of Applied Biology, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Cover crops are an increasingly common conservation practice in intensive row‐crop
agriculture of the Midwestern United States and can improve wildlife habitat. However, they …

The fear diet: Risk, refuge, and biological control by omnivorous weed seed predators

IV Widick, JL Berl, I Kaplan, PA Zollner… - Basic and Applied …, 2022 - Elsevier
Weed seed biocontrol by omnivorous mice and insects can limit weed seedbanks, but this
ecosystem service can be difficult to predict given the broad diet breadth of seed predators …

Invasive shrubs amplify seasonal granivory, revealing optimal windows for seed survival following invasive shrub removal

ME Fuka, JL Orrock - Ecosphere, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Invasive shrubs dramatically reduce the biodiversity of native plants, making invaded areas
important targets of conservation and restoration. Adding seeds of native plant species, in …

Omnivore diet composition alters parasite resistance and host condition

CK Blubaugh, CR Jones, C Josefson… - Journal of Animal …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Diet composition modulates animals' ability to resist parasites and recover from stress.
Broader diet breadths enable omnivores to mount dynamic responses to parasite attack, but …

Spatially explicit models reveal rodents rapidly colonize soybean fields regardless of pre-planting chemical treatment timing for cover crop removal

JL Nierman, SM Murphy, W Leuenberger, AG Davis… - Crop Protection, 2024 - Elsevier
Soybean (Glycine max) is among the most important field crops in the world, and the USA is
a top global producer, but USA soybean losses have increased because of multitude of …

[PDF][PDF] Raptor resource use in agroecosystems: cover crops and definitions of availability matter.

ME Zagorski, RK Swihart - Avian Conservation & Ecology, 2021 - researchgate.net
The populations of many species of raptors that forage in agroecosystems have declined as
agriculture has intensified. Cover crops are a recent trend in areas of intensive row-crop …

Spatial variation in density of white-footed mice along edges in fragmented habitat

JL Berl, KF Kellner, EA Flaherty, RK Swihart - The American Midland …, 2018 - BioOne
The influence of forest fragmentation and associated habitat edges differentially affects
forest-dependent organisms, particularly when certain species are able to use resources …

Developmental instability and body condition in rodents: industrialized agriculture disturbances in anthromes from central Argentina

GA Martini, JW Priotto, VN Serafini, JA Coda - Mammalian Biology, 2024 - Springer
Among human activities agriculture is one of the main drivers of biodiversity loss worldwide
in recent decades. The effects of agricultural intensification on vertebrate populations may …

Palatability of common cover crops to voles (Microtus)

AGA Prieur, RK Swihart - Crop protection, 2020 - Elsevier
Use of cover crops in intensive row-crop agriculture has dramatically increased over the last
decade. Cover crops provide vegetative cover and forage that may support more diverse …