The effects of early season and late season prescribed fires on small mammals in a Sierra Nevada mixed conifer forest

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 236, Issue 2-3, 2006, Pages 229-240

  Monroe, Michelle E ^a   Converse, Sarah J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

Conifer forest; Fire season; Mark recapture; Neotamias; Peromyscus; Population density; Small mammal

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; BIOMASS; CLIMATE CHANGE; FORESTRY;

CONIFER FORESTS; FIRE SEASON; MARK-RECAPTURE; PEROMYSCUS; POPULATION DENSITY; SMALL MAMMALS;

FIRE HAZARDS;

AGE STRUCTURE; BIOMASS; CONIFEROUS FOREST; ECOSYSTEM MODELING; ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECT; FOREST FIRE; MARK-RECAPTURE METHOD; MIXED FOREST; POPULATION DENSITY; SEASONALITY; SMALL MAMMAL;

BIOMASS; FOREST FIRES; MAMMALS; SEASONAL VARIATION;

CALIFORNIA; NORTH AMERICA; SEQUOIA NATIONAL PARK; SIERRA NEVADA [CALIFORNIA]; UNITED STATES;

CERVIDAE; CONIFEROPHYTA; CRICETIDAE; MAMMALIA; PEROMYSCUS; PEROMYSCUS MANICULATUS; TAMIAS; TAMIAS SPECIOSUS;

EID: 33751312821     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2006.09.008     Document Type: Article

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