Characteristics of snags containing excavated cavities in northern Arizona mixed-conifer and ponderosa pine forests

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 199, Issue 2-3, 2004, Pages 323-332

  Ganey, Joseph L ^a   Vojta, Scott C ^a  

^a ROCKY MOUNTAIN RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Arizona; Cavities; Cavity nesting birds; Gambel oak; Mixed conifer; Ponderosa pine; Quaking aspen; Snags

Indexed keywords

EXCAVATED CAVITIES; SERAL SPECIES; SNAGS;

BIODIVERSITY; SOFTWOODS;

FORESTRY;

CAVITY; CONIFEROUS FOREST; FOREST MANAGEMENT; MIXED FOREST; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SNAG; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

BIODIVERSITY; FORESTS; HOLES; POPULUS TREMULOIDES; QUERCUS; SOFTWOODS;

ARIZONA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

AVES; CONIFEROPHYTA; PINUS PONDEROSA; POPULUS; POPULUS TREMULOIDES; QUERCUS; QUERCUS GAMBELII;

EID: 4444233090     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2004.05.042     Document Type: Article

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