Marten habitat selection in a clearcut boreal landscape

Conservation Biology

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 844-857

  Potvin, François ^a   Bélanger, Louis ^b   Lowell, Kim ^b  

^a Boîte 92 ^*  (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLEARCUTTING; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; HABITAT SELECTION; MAMMAL;

CANADA;

CHORISTONEURA FUMIFERANA; MARTES AMERICANA; PICEA MARIANA;

EID: 0343570516     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1523-1739.2000.99036.x     Document Type: Article

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