Riparian forest strips as habitat for snowshoe hare in a boreal balsam fir forest

Canadian Journal of Forest Research

Volumn 28, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 1494-1500

  Darveau, Marcel ^a   Huot, Jean ^b   Bélanger, Louis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^b CENTRE D ÉTUDES NORDIQUES   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECOSYSTEMS; HARVESTING; LOGGING (FORESTRY); SAMPLING; WOOD;

BOREAL BALSAM FIR FOREST; FOREST STRIP; SNOWSHOE HARE;

ECOLOGY;

BOREAL FOREST; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; RIPARIAN FOREST;

EID: 0032194534     PISSN: 00455067     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/x98-110     Document Type: Article

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