Snag availability for cavity nesters across a chronosequence of post-harvest landscapes in western Newfoundland

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 256, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 641-647

  Smith, Caryn Y ^a,b   Warkentin, Ian G ^a,b   Moroni, Martin T ^c  

^a MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

^b MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

^c LAURENTIAN FORESTRY CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Boreal; Cavity nesters; Newfoundland; Northern Flickers; Snags

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGY; HARVESTING; OCEAN HABITATS;

BOREAL FORESTS; CAVITY NESTERS; CHRONOSEQUENCE; DIAMETER AT BREAST HEIGHT (DBH); ELSEVIER (CO); NEWFOUNDLAND; POST-HARVEST; PUBESCENS; SNAG DENSITY; STANDING DEAD TREES; WOODPECKERS (RCW);

FORESTRY;

BIRD; BOREAL FOREST; CAVITY; CHRONOSEQUENCE; CONIFEROUS TREE; DECIDUOUS TREE; HABITAT AVAILABILITY; HABITAT QUALITY; HARVESTING; SNAG; SPACE USE;

ABIES AMABILIS; ECOLOGY; FORESTRY; HARVESTING; TREES;

CANADA; NEWFOUNDLAND; NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR; NORTH AMERICA;

ABIES; ABIES BALSAMEA; BETULA PAPYRIFERA; BETULA PENDULA; COLAPTES; COLAPTES AURATUS; PICOIDES PUBESCENS; PICOIDES TRIDACTYLUS;

EID: 46849097413     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2008.05.009     Document Type: Article

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