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To facilitate a better understanding of this threat, we sought to evaluate habitat suitability, population demography, and biotic interactions of poison ivy, using a series of complementary field studies in the two habitats where it most commonly occurs\u2014forest interiors and edges. Of the 2500 seeds planted across both habitats, poison ivy initially colonized forest interiors (32% emergence) at a higher rate than edge habitats (16.5% emergence). However, forest interior seedlings were less likely to survive (interior n = 3; edge n = 15), which might be attributed to herbivore pressure when the seedlings were smaller in the less competitive forest interior. Once established, the poison ivy seedlings appeared to be more tolerant of herbivory, except that of large grazers such as deer. The early life stage of seedling emergence, survival, and establishment are critical in poison ivy success, with biotic pressure, especially from plant competition and deer, limiting recruitment. A suitable habitat of this expanding native liana would increase with increasing forest fragmentation, but might be buffered by the expanding deer population.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/plants10020263","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2021,1,30]],"date-time":"2021-01-30T06:22:20Z","timestamp":1611987740000},"page":"263","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":3,"title":["Habitat Suitability and Establishment Limitations of a Problematic Liana"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"10","author":[{"given":"Christopher C.","family":"Dickinson","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Plant and Environmental Sciences, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24061, USA"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-7088-8020","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"John G.","family":"Jelesko","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Plant and Environmental Sciences, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24061, USA"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-2949-5003","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Jacob N.","family":"Barney","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Plant and Environmental Sciences, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24061, USA"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2021,1,29]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"397","DOI":"10.1111\/j.1461-0248.2011.01590.x","article-title":"Increasing liana abundance and biomass in tropical forests: Emerging patterns and putative mechanisms","volume":"14","author":"Schnitzer","year":"2011","journal-title":"Ecol. 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