Structure of forests used by small mammals in the industrially damaged landscape of Sudbury, Ontario, Canada

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 225, Issue 1-3, 2006, Pages 160-167

  Robitaille, Jean François ^a   Linley, Robert Dallas ^a  

^a LAURENTIAN UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Forest structure; Habitat use; Industrially damaged landscapes; Small mammals; Sudbury

Indexed keywords

PLANTS (BOTANY); POLLUTION; SOILS;

FOREST STRUCTURE; HABITAT USE; INDUSTRIALLY DAMAGED LANDSCAPES; SMALL MAMMALS; SUDBURY;

FORESTRY;

ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; HABITAT USE; SMALL MAMMAL; STAND STRUCTURE;

FORESTRY; PLANTS; POLLUTION; SOIL;

CANADA; NORTH AMERICA; ONTARIO;

BLARINA BREVICAUDA; CERVIDAE; CLETHRIONOMYS; CLETHRIONOMYS GAPPERI; CONIFEROPHYTA; CRICETINAE; GLAUCOMYS SABRINUS; MAMMALIA; MICROTUS PENNSYLVANICUS; MURIDAE; MUS MUSCULUS; PEROMYSCUS MANICULATUS; PTEROMYINI; SCIURIDAE; SOREX CINEREUS; TAMIAS STRIATUS; TAMIASCIURUS; TAMIASCIURUS HUDSONICUS;

EID: 33645060751     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2005.12.033     Document Type: Article

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