Managing boreal forest landscapes for flying squirrels

Conservation Biology

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 218-226

  Reunanen, Pasi ^a   Mönkkönen, Mikko ^a   Nikula, Ari ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

^b FINNISH FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOREAL FOREST; MAMMAL; POPULATION DECLINE; SPECIES CONSERVATION;

FINLAND;

PTEROMYS VOLANS;

EID: 17144465219     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1523-1739.2000.98387.x     Document Type: Article

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