Effects of local and regional landscape characteristics on wildlife distribution across managed forests

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 259, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1102-1110

  Millington, James D A ^a   Walters, Michael B ^a   Matonis, Megan S ^a   Liu, Jianguo ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Landscape characteristics; Lowland conifer; Managed forest; Northern hardwood; Ungulate herbivory; White tailed deer; Wildlife distribution

Indexed keywords

HERBIVORY; LANDSCAPE CHARACTERISTIC; MANAGED FOREST; NORTHERN HARDWOODS; WHITE-TAILED DEER;

ANIMALS; HARDWOODS; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

FORESTRY;

BASAL AREA; BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; CONIFEROUS FOREST; DEER; FOREST COVER; FOREST DYNAMICS; HERBIVORY; LANDSCAPE CHANGE; LOWLAND ENVIRONMENT; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT;

ANIMALS; FOREST MANAGEMENT; FORESTRY; HARDWOODS; SOFTWOODS;

MICHIGAN; UNITED STATES; UPPER PENINSULA;

CERVIDAE; CONIFEROPHYTA; ODOCOILEUS VIRGINIANUS; UNGULATA;

EID: 75349111296     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2009.12.020     Document Type: Article

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