Temporal patterns in aquatic and avian communities following selective logging in the Upper Great Lakes region

Forest Science

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 339-349

  Flaspohler, David J ^a   Huckins, Casey J Fisher ^a   Bub, Brian R ^a   Van Dusen, Peter J ^a  

^a MICHIGAN TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Brook char; Forest songbirds; Macroinvertebrates; Riparian; Stream communities

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEMS; HARDWOODS; LAKES; POPULATION STATISTICS; WATERSHEDS;

HABITAT QUALITY;

FORESTRY;

ANIMALIA; AVES; CARNIVORA; EPHEMEROPTERA; FONTINALIS; GALLIFORMES; PASSERI; PLECOPTERA; RIPARIA; SALVELINUS; SALVELINUS FONTINALIS; TRICHOPTERA;

EID: 0036587202     PISSN: 0015749X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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