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The source I decided to look at is entitled Positive plant and bird diversity response to experimental deer population reduction after decades of uncontrolled browsing (2016) by Simon Chollet et. al, a study that took place in the forests of Haida Gwaii.
There are in-text citations and an extensive bibliography, and the authors all come from either the University of Montpellier, the University of Ottawa, or the National Wildlife Research Centre, so it is safe to assume they are experts in the field, which al signifies that this is academic material.
In the acknowledgments section the authors gave thanks to the three anonymous referees, which gives evidence that it was peer reviewed.
There are sections for methods and results which tells us that this is research material rather than review material.
This study was really interesting and took place over 13 years. The authors found that when they culled the black-tailed deer, native plant communities increased in both richness and percent cover and birds that were dependent on understory vegetation increased.
Chollet, S., Padié, S., Stockton, S., Allombert, S., Gaston, A., Martin, J., & Larson, B. (2016). Positive plant and bird diversity response to experimental deer population reduction after decades of uncontrolled browsing. Diversity and Distributions, 22(3), 274-287. doi:10.1111/ddi.12393
