Exclusion of large herbivores affects understorey shrub vegetation more than herb vegetation across 147 forest sites in three German regions

• Deborah Schäfer ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: deborah.schaefer@boga.unibe.ch

  Affiliation Institute of Plant Sciences, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9591-841X

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• Daniel Prati,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Plant Sciences, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

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• Peter Schall,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Silviculture and Forest Ecology of the Temperate Zones, University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany

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• Christian Ammer,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Silviculture and Forest Ecology of the Temperate Zones, University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany

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• Markus Fischer

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Plant Sciences, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

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