Resting structures and resting habitat of fishers in the southern Sierra Nevada, California

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 258, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 2696-2706

  Purcell, Kathryn L ^a   Mazzoni, Amie K ^a,b   Mori, Sylvia R ^a   Boroski, Brian B ^a  

^a PACIFIC SOUTHWEST RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Fisher; Habitat selection; Martes pennanti; Resting habitat; Resting structures; Sierra Nevada

Indexed keywords

FISHER; HABITAT SELECTION; MARTES PENNANTI; RESTING HABITAT; RESTING STRUCTURES; SIERRA NEVADA;

CONSERVATION; FORESTRY; OCEAN HABITATS; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

ECOLOGY;

CANOPY ARCHITECTURE; CONIFEROUS FOREST; ENDANGERED SPECIES ACT; GENETIC VARIATION; HABITAT AVAILABILITY; HABITAT MANAGEMENT; HABITAT SELECTION; MANAGEMENT PRACTICE; MUSTELID; RANGE SIZE; SNAG; SUCCESSION;

BIODIVERSITY; CALIFORNIA; CONSERVATION; DECAY; ECOLOGY; FORESTS; PINUS PONDEROSA;

CALIFORNIA; NORTH AMERICA; SIERRA NEVADA [CALIFORNIA]; UNITED STATES;

CALOCEDRUS DECURRENS; MARTES PENNANTI; MUSTELIDAE; PINUS PONDEROSA; VISCUM ALBUM;

EID: 70350566654     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2009.09.041     Document Type: Article

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