Response of soricid populations to repeated fire and fuel reduction treatments in the southern Appalachian Mountains

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 257, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1939-1944

  Matthews, Charlotte E ^a   Moorman, Christopher E ^a   Greenberg, Cathryn H ^b   Waldrop, Thomas A ^b  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Fire surrogates; Prescribed fire; Shrews; Soricids; Southern Appalachian Mountains; Understory cutting

Indexed keywords

FIRES; FUELS; INCINERATION; LANDFORMS;

FIRE SURROGATES; PRESCRIBED FIRE; SHREWS; SORICIDS; SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN MOUNTAINS; UNDERSTORY CUTTING;

FORESTRY;

FIRE; FOREST FLOOR; FUEL; MAMMAL; MOUNTAIN REGION; PITFALL TRAP; POPULATION DECLINE; PRESCRIBED BURNING; TWENTIETH CENTURY; UNDERSTORY;

BIOLOGICAL POPULATIONS; COMBUSTION; CUTTING; FIRES; FOREST FIRES; FORESTS; MOISTURE CONTENT; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION;

APPALACHIANS; NORTH AMERICA;

SOREX LONGIROSTRIS; SORICIDAE;

EID: 63049115418     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2009.02.006     Document Type: Article

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