Importance of early successional habitats to mammals in eastern forests

Wildlife Society Bulletin

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 466-473

  Litvaitis, J A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

Author keywords

Bats; Black bears; Bobcats; Cottontails; Disturbance; Early successional habitat; Mammals; Snowshoe hares

Indexed keywords

FOREST ECOSYSTEM; MAMMAL; POPULATION DECLINE;

UNITED STATES;

LYNX RUFUS; MYOTIS LUCIFUGUS; SYLVILAGUS TRANSITIONALIS; URSUS AMERICANUS;

EID: 0034959244     PISSN: 00917648     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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