Small mammals as bioindicators of sustainable boreal forest management

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 208, Issue 1-3, 2005, Pages 153-175

  Pearce, Jennie ^a   Venier, Lisa ^a  

^a GREAT LAKES FORESTRY CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Biological indicators; Habitat modeling; Habitat supply models; Mammalia; Mice; Population modeling; Shrews; Trend; Voles

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; BIOMARKERS; MAPPING; POPULATION STATISTICS; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

DYNAMIC LANDSCAPE META-POPULATION (DLMP); FOREST HABITATS; FURBEARERS; MAMMAL SPECIES;

FORESTRY;

BIOINDICATOR; BOREAL FOREST; FOREST MANAGEMENT; HABITAT USE; SMALL MAMMAL; SUSTAINABILITY;

BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL POPULATIONS; FORESTRY; MAPPING; SUSTAINABLE FOREST MANAGEMENT;

CANADA; NORTH AMERICA; ONTARIO; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WHITE RIVER [ONTARIO]; WORLD;

CERVIDAE; CLETHRIONOMYS; MAMMALIA; MURIDAE; PEROMYSCUS MANICULATUS; SORICIDAE;

EID: 14744295161     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2004.11.024     Document Type: Article

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