Response of Small Mammal Populations to Fuel Treatment and Precipitation in a Ponderosa Pine Forest, New Mexico

Restoration Ecology

Volumn 18, Issue SUPPL. 2, 2010, Pages 409-417

  Bagne, Karen E ^a   Finch, Deborah M ^a  

^a ROCKY MOUNTAIN RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Chipmunk; Deer mouse; Microtus; New Mexico; Peromyscus manuculatus; Thinning

Indexed keywords

MARK-RECAPTURE METHOD; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION ESTIMATION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SMALL MAMMAL; THINNING;

NEW MEXICO; UNITED STATES;

MAMMALIA; MICROTUS; MURIDAE; NEOTOMA; PEROMYSCUS; PEROMYSCUS MANICULATUS; TAMIAS;

EID: 78449252438     PISSN: 10612971     EISSN: 1526100X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1526-100X.2009.00601.x     Document Type: Article

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