Long-term responses of ecosystem components to stand thinning in young lodgepole pine forest: II. Diversity and population dynamics of forest floor small mammals

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 205, Issue 1-3, 2005, Pages 1-14

  Sullivan, Thomas P ^a   Sullivan, Druscilla S ^a   Lindgren, Pontus M F ^a   Ransome, Douglas B ^a  

^a Applied Mammal Research Institute   (Canada)

Author keywords

Abundance; Clethrionomys gapperi; Forest floor small mammals; Lodgepole pine; Population dynamics; Pre commercial thinning; Species diversity

Indexed keywords

ECOSYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; LARGE-SCALE THINNING; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PRE-COMMERCIAL THINNING;

BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEMS; HARVESTING; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

FORESTRY;

OLD-GROWTH FOREST; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SILVICULTURE; SMALL MAMMAL; SPECIES DIVERSITY; THINNING;

BIODIVERSITY; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEMS; HARVESTING; PINUS; SILVICULTURE; THINNING;

BRITISH COLUMBIA; CANADA; KAMLOOPS; NORTH AMERICA; PRINCE GEORGE; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

CLETHRIONOMYS; CLETHRIONOMYS GAPPERI; MAMMALIA; MURIDAE; PINUS CONTORTA;

EID: 11444253484     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2004.10.001     Document Type: Article

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