Landscape-Scale forest habitat relationships to tassel-eared squirrel populations: Implications for ponderosa pine forest restoration

Restoration Ecology

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 537-547

  Dodd, Norris L ^a   Schweinsburg, Raymond E ^a   Boe, Susan ^a  

^a ARIZONA GAME AND FISH DEPARTMENT   (United States)

Author keywords

Arizona; Forest restoration; Habitat relationships; Landscape; Pinus ponderosa; Ponderosa pine; Population dynamics; Sciurus aberti; Tassel eared squirrels; Thresholds

Indexed keywords

FOREST CANOPY; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; FOREST MANAGEMENT; HABITAT CONSERVATION; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; MAMMAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

PINUS PONDEROSA; SCIURIDAE; SCIURUS ABERTI;

EID: 33746367407     PISSN: 10612971     EISSN: 1526100X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1526-100X.2006.00165.x     Document Type: Article

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