Forecasting vole population outbreaks in forest plantations: The rise and fall of a major mammalian pest

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 260, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 983-993

  Sullivan, Thomas P ^a   Sullivan, Druscilla S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b Applied Mammal Research Institute   (Canada)

Author keywords

Abundance; Feeding damage; Forecasting outbreaks; Forest plantations; Grass seeding; Long tailed voles; Microtus longicaudus; Population dynamics; Tree seedlings

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; FOREST PLANTATION; FOREST PLANTATIONS; LONG-TAILED VOLES; MICROTUS; TREE SEEDLINGS;

DYNAMICS; ECOSYSTEMS; FEEDING; FORECASTING; HARVESTING; MAMMALS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION STATISTICS; SEED;

REFORESTATION;

ABUNDANCE; BOREAL FOREST; CLEARCUTTING; ECONOMIC IMPACT; FEEDING; FORECASTING METHOD; FOREST COVER; GRASS; HERB; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; MORTALITY; PEST SPECIES; PLANTATION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION OUTBREAK; REGENERATION; RODENT; SEEDLING; SUCCESSION; TEMPERATE FOREST;

AMERICA; DYNAMICS; ECOSYSTEMS; FEEDING; FORECASTS; FORESTS; GRASSES; HARVESTING; MAMMALS; PLANTATIONS; REFORESTATION; SEEDLINGS; SEEDS; STATISTICS; VASCULAR PLANTS;

BRITISH COLUMBIA; CANADA; EURASIA;

MAMMALIA; MICROTUS; MICROTUS LONGICAUDUS; MURIDAE; POACEAE; TRACHEOPHYTA;

EID: 77955517974     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2010.06.017     Document Type: Article

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