Comparative responses of small mammals, vegetation, and food sources to natural regeneration and conifer release treatments in boreal balsam fir stands of Quebec

Canadian Journal of Forest Research

Volumn 29, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 1128-1140

  Gagné, Nancy ^a   Bélanger, Louis ^a   Huot, Jean ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDY; FOOD SUPPLY; FOREST MANAGEMENT; REGENERATION; RESPONSE ANALYSIS; SMALL MAMMAL; VEGETATION;

CANADA; QUEBEC;

ABIES; ABIES BALSAMEA; ARTHROPODA; CLETHRIONOMYS GAPPERI; CONIFEROPHYTA; MAMMALIA; MURIDAE; PICEA MARIANA; RUBUS GLAUCUS; RUBUS IDAEUS;

EID: 0033500212     PISSN: 00455067     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/x99-095     Document Type: Conference Paper

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