A trial of deer repellent spray for reducing deer browsing damage to coppiced hazel in an ancient woodland in Cambridgeshire

Published source details Williams S.S. (2025) A trial of deer repellent spray for reducing deer browsing damage to coppiced hazel in an ancient woodland in Cambridgeshire. Conservation Evidence, 22, 16-17.
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A replicated, controlled trial in 2023 to test whether Trico® deer repellent spray is effective for protecting coppice re-growth from deer browsing found significantly fewer visible signs of browsing and significantly higher average re-growth for sprayed coppice than for an unsprayed control.

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