Long-term responses of ecosystem components to stand thinning in young lodgepole pine forest. I. Population dynamics of northern flying squirrels and red squirrels

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 202, Issue 1-3, 2004, Pages 355-367

  Ransome, Douglas B ^a   Lindgren, Pontus M F ^a   Sullivan, Druscilla S ^a   Sullivan, Thomas P ^a  

^a Applied Mammal Research Institute   (Canada)

Author keywords

Glaucomys sabrinus; Lodgepole pine; Old growth attributes; Population dynamics; Pre commercial thinning; Tamiasciurus hudsonicus

Indexed keywords

LATE-SERAL FORESTS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PRE-COMMERCIAL THINNING;

ECOSYSTEMS; GROWTH KINETICS; POPULATION STATISTICS; SAMPLING;

FORESTRY;

FOREST MANAGEMENT; OLD-GROWTH FOREST; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RODENT; THINNING;

ECOSYSTEMS; FORESTRY; PINUS; SAMPLING;

GLAUCOMYS; GLAUCOMYS SABRINUS; PINUS CONTORTA; SCIURIDAE; TAMIASCIURUS HUDSONICUS;

EID: 6344229545     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2004.08.002     Document Type: Article

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