Influences of postfire salvage logging on forest birds in the Eastern Cascades, Oregon, USA

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 257, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 1119-1128

  Cahall, Rebecca E ^a   Hayes, John P ^a  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Birds; Fire; Ponderosa pine Douglas fir forest; Salvage logging

Indexed keywords

DEFORESTATION; ECOLOGY; FIRES; FORESTRY; HARVESTING; LOGGING (FORESTRY); MILITARY OPERATIONS; OCEAN HABITATS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; WELL LOGGING;

BIRD SPECIES; CONIFER FORESTS; CONIFEROUS FORESTS; FAUNAL COMMUNITIES; FOREST FIRES; NEGATIVE INFLUENCES; OREGON , USA; PONDEROSA PINE-DOUGLAS-FIR FOREST; POST FIRES; RELATIVE ABUNDANCES; REPEATED MEASURES; ROBUST PATTERNS; SALVAGE LOGGING; SALVAGE TREATMENTS;

BIRDS;

ABUNDANCE; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONIFEROUS FOREST; DISTURBANCE; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; FOREST FIRE; LOGGING (TIMBER); PASSERINE; VARIANCE ANALYSIS;

BIRDS; DEFORESTATION; ECOLOGY; FIRES; FORESTRY; HARVESTING; LOGGING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SALVAGE; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION;

CASCADE RANGE; NORTH AMERICA; OREGON; UNITED STATES;

AVES; CERTHIA AMERICANA; CONIFEROPHYTA; CONTOPUS SORDIDULUS; DENDROICA CORONATA; JUNCO HYEMALIS; PASSERELLA; PASSERELLA ILIACA; PICOIDES ARCTICUS; PICOIDES VILLOSUS; PSEUDOTSUGA; PSEUDOTSUGA MENZIESII;

EID: 58149302673     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2008.11.019     Document Type: Article

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