To determine the impacts of Sambar deer (C. unicolor) on forest understoreys and to be able to distinguish these impacts from that of native herbivores, exclusion plots were constructed in 2005 and 2006 in the Yarra Ranges National Park, Victoria, Australia.
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Reference:
Bennett A. and Coulson G. (2008) Evaluation of an exclusion plot design for determining the impacts of native and exotic herbivores on forest understoreys. Australian Mammalogy 30, 83-87. doi: 10.1071/AM08010.