Effects of wildland fire smoke on a tree-roosting bat: Integrating a plume model, field measurements, and mammalian dose-response relationships

Canadian Journal of Forest Research

Volumn 40, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 2187-2203

  Dickinson, M B ^a   Norris, J C ^b   Bova, A S ^a   Kremens, R L ^c   Young, V ^d   Lacki, M J ^e  

^a Northern Research Station   (United States)

^b Norris Consulting Services   (United States)

^c ROCHESTER INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d US Institute of Navigation   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRITICAL LEVEL; DOSE RESPONSE RELATIONSHIPS; EASTERN KENTUCKY; FIELD MEASUREMENT; FIRE MANAGEMENT; HEAT EFFECT; HEAT INJURY; HEATING MODELS; INDIANA BAT; MODEL OUTPUTS; MYOTIS SODALIS; OAK FORESTS; PLUME MODEL; PREDICTIVE RELATIONSHIPS; PRESCRIBED FIRES; WILDLAND FIRE;

CARBON MONOXIDE; FIRE HAZARDS; FORESTRY; MAMMALS;

FIRES;

ATMOSPHERIC PLUME; BAT; BLOOD; CARBON MONOXIDE; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DECIDUOUS FOREST; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP; ENDANGERED SPECIES; FIELDWORK; FIRE MANAGEMENT; HEATING; INJURY; MIXED FOREST; MORTALITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; PRESCRIBED BURNING; RISK ASSESSMENT; ROOSTING; SMOKE; TORPOR; WILDFIRE; WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT;

CARBON MONOXIDE; CONCENTRATION; FOREST FIRES; INSECTS; KENTUCKY; MAMMALS; MORTALITY; OHIO; SMOKE;

KENTUCKY; OHIO; UNITED STATES;

MAMMALIA; MYOTIS SODALIS;

EID: 78449265587     PISSN: 00455067     EISSN: 12086037     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/X10-148     Document Type: Article

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