Fine-scale selection by marten during winter in a young deciduous forest

Canadian Journal of Forest Research

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 901-909

  Porter, Aswea Dawn ^a,c   St Clair, Colleen Cassady ^a   De Vries, Andrew ^b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b Canadian Forest Products Ltd   (Canada)

^c Forest Products Association of Canada ^*  (Canada)

^d Forest Prod Association of Canada   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FORESTRY; GROWTH KINETICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SURVEYS; TELEMETERING; VEGETATION;

DECIDUOUS FORESTS; HABITAT SELECTION; RADIOTELEMETRY; SNOWTRACKING;

HARDWOODS;

DECIDUOUS FOREST; HABITAT SELECTION; MUSTELID;

GROWTH; HARDWOODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PLANTS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SURVEYS; TELEMETRY;

BRITISH COLUMBIA; CANADA; NORTH AMERICA; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

MARTES AMERICANA;

EID: 22744449795     PISSN: 00455067     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/x05-014     Document Type: Article

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