Stand structure and the abundance and diversity of plants and small mammals in natural and intensively managed forests

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 258, Issue SUPPL., 2009, Pages

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b Applied Mammal Research Institute   (Canada)

Author keywords

Fertilization; Forest floor small mammals; Lodgepole pine; Old growth attributes; Pre commercial thinning; Species richness and diversity; Stand structure

Indexed keywords

LODGEPOLE PINE; OLD-GROWTH; PRE-COMMERCIAL THINNING; SMALL MAMMALS; SPECIES RICHNESS; STAND STRUCTURE; STAND STRUCTURES;

BIODIVERSITY; FLOORS; MAMMALS; VEGETATION;

FORESTRY;

ABUNDANCE; BIODIVERSITY; COMMERCIAL ACTIVITY; CONIFEROUS FOREST; FERTILIZER APPLICATION; FOREST FLOOR; FOREST MANAGEMENT; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; OLD-GROWTH FOREST; SMALL MAMMAL; SPECIALIST; SPECIES DIVERSITY; STAND STRUCTURE; THINNING; UNDERSTORY;

BIODIVERSITY; FLOORS; FORESTRY; GROWTH; MAMMALS; PINUS CONTORTA; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; THINNING;

BRITISH COLUMBIA; CANADA; KELOWNA; NORTH AMERICA; SUMMERLAND [BRITISH COLUMBIA];

BRYOPHYTA; CONIFERALES; CONIFEROPHYTA; MAMMALIA; MICROTUS LONGICAUDUS; MICROTUS PENNSYLVANICUS; PEROMYSCUS; PEROMYSCUS MANICULATUS; PHENACOMYS INTERMEDIUS; PINUS CONTORTA; SOREX CINEREUS; SOREX MONTICOLUS; TAMIAS AMOENUS; TRACHEOPHYTA;

EID: 71649096764     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2009.06.001     Document Type: Article

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