Long-term responses of ecosystem components to stand thinning in young lodgepole pine forest. IV. Relative habitat use by mammalian herbivores

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 240, Issue 1-3, 2007, Pages 32-41

  Sullivan, Thomas P ^a   Sullivan, Druscilla S ^b   Lindgren, Pontus M F ^b   Ransome, Douglas B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b Applied Mammal Research Institute   (Canada)

Author keywords

Alces alces; Lepus americanus; Lodgepole pine; Odocoileus hemionus; Pre commercial thinning; Relative habitat use

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEMS; VEGETATION;

ALCES ALCES; LEPUS AMERICANUS; ODOCOILEUS HEMIONUS; PRE COMMERCIAL THINNING; RELATIVE HABITAT USE;

FORESTRY;

ABUNDANCE; CONIFEROUS FOREST; FORAGE; FOREST COVER; FOREST MANAGEMENT; HABITAT USE; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; MAMMAL; OVERSTORY; SPECIES DIVERSITY; THINNING; UNDERSTORY; UNGULATE;

FORESTS; PINUS CONTORTA; PLANTS; THINNING;

BRITISH COLUMBIA; CANADA; NORTH AMERICA;

ALCES ALCES; CERVIDAE; CONIFEROPHYTA; LEPUS; LEPUS AMERICANUS; MAMMALIA; ODOCOILEUS HEMIONUS; PINUS CONTORTA; UNGULATA;

EID: 33846892528     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2006.11.020     Document Type: Article

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