Preliminary effects of fire and mechanical fuel treatments on the abundance of small mammals in the mixed-conifer forest of the Sierra Nevada

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 255, Issue 8-9, 2008, Pages 3193-3202

  Amacher, Andrew J ^a   Barrett, Reginald H ^a   Moghaddas, Jason J ^a   Stephens, Scott L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Coarse woody debris; Fire; Fire surrogates; Forest restoration; Fuel treatments; Small mammals; Thinning; Timber harvest

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; FIRES; VEGETATION;

COARSE WOODY DEBRIS; FIRE SURROGATES; FOREST RESTORATION; FUEL TREATMENTS; TIMBER HARVEST; WILDLAND MANAGEMENT;

FORESTRY;

ABUNDANCE; CANOPY; CATASTROPHIC EVENT; COARSE WOODY DEBRIS; CONIFEROUS FOREST; FOREST FIRE; FUEL; MIXED FOREST; POPULATION DECLINE; RODENT; SMALL MAMMAL; SURROGATE METHOD; THINNING;

BIODIVERSITY; FOREST CANOPY; FOREST FIRES; THINNING;

CALIFORNIA; NORTH AMERICA; SIERRA NEVADA [CALIFORNIA]; UNITED STATES;

CONIFEROPHYTA; LITHOCARPUS DENSIFLORUS; MAMMALIA; PEROMYSCUS; PEROMYSCUS BOYLII; PEROMYSCUS MANICULATUS; SCIURIDAE; SPERMOPHILUS BEECHEYI; TAMIAS QUADRIMACULATUS; UROCYON; UROCYON CINEREOARGENTEUS;

EID: 43049147979     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2007.10.059     Document Type: Article

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