Aundrea Blake Taylor (M.S.) with UW-Madison Forest & Wildlife Ecology has been awarded a research grant by the Friends of Peninsula State Park. This grant will provide financial assistance to help her examine the influence of deer herbivory on forest floor vegetation and corresponding soil conditions.
White-tailed deer are considered ecosystem engineers due to their prolific reproduction and preferential foraging across Wisconsin. Aundrea expects the results of this research will improve our understanding of deer–vegetation–soil interactions and provide valuable insights for forest management and ecological restoration efforts across Wisconsin.
Aundrea would like to acknowledge the generous support of Friends of Peninsula State Park and says that “because of this grant I will be able to expand my study to 31 deer exclosures distributed across the Wisconsin.”
For more information about applying for a Friends of Peninsula State Park research grants follow this LINK.
