What are the impacts of reindeer/caribou (Rangifer tarandus L.) on arctic and alpine vegetation? A systematic review

Bernes, Claes; Bråthen, Kari Anne; Forbes, Bruce C; Speed, James DM; Moen, Jon

doi:10.1186/s13750-014-0030-3

Environmental Evidence

Table 1 Articles included in the systematic review

From: What are the impacts of reindeer/caribou (Rangifer tarandus L.) on arctic and alpine vegetation? A systematic review

Authors	Year	Title	Study area	Ref.
Bråthen & Oksanen	2001	Reindeer reduce biomass of preferred plant species	N Norway	[73]
Bråthen et al.	2007	Induced shift in ecosystem productivity? Extensive scale effects of abundant large herbivores	N Norway	[23]
Cahoon et al.	2012	Large herbivores limit CO₂ uptake and suppress carbon cycle responses to warming in West Greenland	Greenland	[68]
den Herder et al.	2004	Effects of reindeer browsing on tundra willow and its associated insect herbivores	Finland	[74]
Dormann & Skarpe	2002	Flowering, growth and defence in the two sexes: Consequences of herbivore exclusion for Salix polaris	Svalbard	[75]
Eriksson et al.	2007	Use and abuse of reindeer range	Sweden	[62]
Eskelinen & Oksanen	2006	Changes in the abundance, composition and species richness of mountain vegetation in relation to summer grazing by reindeer	Finland	[76]
Gaare et al.	2006	Overvåking av vinterbeiter i Vest-Finnmark og Karasjok: Ny beskrivelse av fastrutene	N Norway	[59]
Gonzalez et al.	2010	Large-scale grazing history effects on Arctic-alpine germinable seed banks	N Norway	[69]
Gough et al.	2008	Long-term mammalian herbivory and nutrient addition alter lichen community structure in Alaskan dry heath tundra	Alaska, USA	[77]
Grellmann	2002	Plant responses to fertilization and exclusion of grazers on an arctic tundra heath	N Norway	[78]
Hansen et al.	2007	Ungulate impact on vegetation in a two-level trophic system	Svalbard	[61]
Jandt et al.	2003	Western Arctic Caribou Herd winter habitat monitoring and utilization, 1995-1996	Alaska, USA	[60]
Johansen & Karlsen	2005	Monitoring vegetation changes on Finnmarksvidda, Northern Norway, using Landsat MSS and Landsat TM / ETM+ satellite images	N Norway	[58]
Kitti et al.	2009	Long- and short-term effects of reindeer grazing on tundra wetland vegetation	N Norway/Finland	[66]
Lehtonen & Heikkinen	1995	On the recovery of mountain birch after Epirrita damage in Finnish Lapland, with a particular emphasis on reindeer grazing	Finland	[79]
Manseau et al.	1996	Effects of summer grazing by caribou on composition and productivity of vegetation: Community and landscape level	Canada	[80]
Moen et al.	2009	Variations in mountain vegetation use by reindeer (Rangifer tarandus) affects dry heath but not grass heath	Sweden	[63]
Nellemann et al.	2000	Cumulative impacts of tourist resorts on wild reindeer (Rangifer tarandus tarandus) during winter	S Norway	[81]
Nellemann et al.	2001	Winter distribution of wild reindeer in relation to power lines, roads and resorts	S Norway	[82]
Olofsson & Strengbom	2000	Response of galling invertebrates on Salix lanata to reindeer herbivory	N Norway	[83]
Olofsson et al.	2001	Effects of summer grazing by reindeer on composition of vegetation, productivity and nitrogen cycling	N Norway/Finland	[21]
Olofsson et al.	2004	Importance of large and small mammalian herbivores for the plant community structure in the forest tundra ecotone	N Norway/Sweden	[84]
Olofsson & Oksanen	2005	Effects of reindeer density on vascular plant diversity on North Scandinavian mountains	N Norway/Finland/Sweden	[49]
Olofsson	2006	Short- and long-term effects of changes in reindeer grazing pressure on tundra heath vegetation	N Norway	[67]
Olofsson et al.	2009	Herbivores inhibit climate-driven shrub expansion on the tundra	N Norway/Sweden	[26]
Olofsson et al.	2013	Complex biotic interactions drive longterm vegetation dynamics in a subarctic ecosystem	Sweden	[85]
Pajunen	2009	Environmental and biotic determinants of growth and height of arctic willow shrubs along a latitudinal gradient	Yamal, Russia	[86]
Pedersen & Post	2008	Interactions between herbivory and warming in aboveground biomass production of arctic vegetation	Greenland	[87]
Post & Pedersen	2008	Opposing plant community responses to warming with and without herbivores	Greenland	[70]
Post	2013	Erosion of community diversity and stability by herbivore removal under warming	Greenland	[88]
Ravolainen et al.	2010	Additive partitioning of diversity reveals no scale-dependent impacts of large ungulates on the structure of tundra plant communities	N Norway	[24]
Ravolainen et al.	2011	Rapid, landscape scale responses in riparian tundra vegetation to exclusion of small and large mammalian herbivores	N Norway	[64]
Tømmervik et al.	2009	Above ground biomass changes in the mountain birch forests and mountain heaths of Finnmarksvidda, northern Norway, in the period 1957-2006	N Norway	[89]
Tømmervik et al.	2012	Rapid recovery of recently overexploited winter grazing pastures for reindeer in northern Norway	N Norway	[46]
van der Wal et al.	2001	Differential effects of reindeer on high Arctic lichens	Svalbard	[90]
van der Wal & Brooker	2004	Mosses mediate grazer impacts on grass abundance in arctic ecosystems	Svalbard	[20]
Vistnes et al.	2004	Effects of infrastructure on migration and range use of wild reindeer	S Norway	[91]
Zamin & Grogan	2012	Birch shrub growth in the low Arctic: The relative importance of experimental warming, enhanced nutrient availability, snow depth and caribou exclusion	Canada	[92]
Zamin & Grogan	2013	Caribou exclusion during a population low increases deciduous and evergreen shrub species biomass and nitrogen pools in low Arctic tundra	Canada	[65]

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