Response of red squirrels and feeding damage to variable stand density in young lodgepole pine forest

Ecological Applications

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 1124-1134

  Sullivan, Thomas P ^a   Klenner, Walt ^a,b   Diggle, Paul K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b RESEARCH BRANCH   (Canada)

Author keywords

Crop trees; Feeding damage; Growth rates; Lodgepole pine; Operational scale; Pinus contorta; Population dynamics; Red squirrel; Silviculture; Stand density; Tamiasciurus hudsonicus; Thinning

Indexed keywords

PINUS CONTORTA; SCIURIDAE; TAMIASCIURUS HUDSONICUS; PINACEAE;

FEEDING DAMAGE; LODGEPOLE PINE; PEST DAMAGE; RED SQUIRREL;

EID: 0030409515     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2269596     Document Type: Article

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