Small mammal abundance and diversity in forests with and without Canada Yew, Taxus canadensis

Canadian Field-Naturalist

Volumn 117, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 389-392

  Belant, Jerrold L ^a   Windels, Steve K ^b  

^a NATIONAL PARK SERVICE   (United States)

^b MICHIGAN TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Canada Yew; Diversity; Michigan; Relative abundance; Small mammals; Taxus canadensis

Indexed keywords

FOREST ECOSYSTEM; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; SMALL MAMMAL; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

MICHIGAN; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

BLARINA; BLARINA BREVICAUDA; CERVIDAE; CLETHRIONOMYS; CLETHRIONOMYS GAPPERI; CRICETINAE; MAMMALIA; MURIDAE; ODOCOILEUS VIRGINIANUS; PEROMYSCUS; PEROMYSCUS MANICULATUS; TAXUS; TAXUS CANADENSIS;

EID: 3543052948     PISSN: 00083550     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.22621/cfn.v117i3.740     Document Type: Article

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