Initial response of small ground-dwelling mammals to forest alternative buffers along headwater streams in the Washington Coast Range, USA

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 260, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1567-1578

  Wilk, Randall J ^a   Raphael, Martin G ^a   Nations, Christopher S ^b   Ricklefs, Jeffrey D ^c  

^a PACIFIC NORTHWEST RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

^b WESTERN ECOSYSTEMS TECHNOLOGY INC   (United States)

^c Washington State Department of Natural Resources   (United States)

Author keywords

Buffer; Headwater; Pacific Northwest; Riparian; Small mammals

Indexed keywords

BUFFER; HEAD WATERS; PACIFIC NORTHWEST; RIPARIAN; SMALL MAMMALS;

APARTMENT HOUSES; BIODIVERSITY; BUILDINGS; ECOSYSTEMS; FORESTRY; HYDRAULICS; PLANNING;

MAMMALS;

ABUNDANCE; BUFFER ZONE; BURROWING ORGANISM; CLEARCUTTING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GENERALIST; HEADWATER; LOGGING (TIMBER); MAMMAL; RIPARIAN FOREST; RODENT; SEASONALITY; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; STREAM; TOPOGRAPHY; TRAPPING;

BIODIVERSITY; BUFFERS; BUILDINGS; ECOSYSTEMS; FORESTRY; HYDRAULICS; MAMMALS; PACIFIC NORTHWEST; PLANNING; USA;

PACIFIC NORTHWEST; UNITED STATES; WASHINGTON [UNITED STATES];

MAMMALIA; MICROTUS OREGONI; NEUROTRICHUS GIBBSII; PEROMYSCUS; PEROMYSCUS KEENI; PEROMYSCUS MANICULATUS; SOREX BENDIRII; SOREX MONTICOLUS; SOREX PALUSTRIS; SOREX TROWBRIDGII; SORICIDAE; TAMIAS TOWNSENDII; ZAPUS TRINOTATUS;

EID: 77957004261     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2010.08.005     Document Type: Article

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