Clearcutting forestry and Eurasian boreal forest grouse: Long-term monitoring of sympatric capercaillie Tetrao urogallus and black grouse T. tetrix reveals unexpected effects on their population performances

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 261, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1520-1529

  Wegge, Per ^a   Rolstad, Jørund ^b  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

^b NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE OF BIOECONOMY RESEARCH   (Norway)

Author keywords

Breeding success; Forest fragmentation; Goshawk; Grouse management; Population dynamics; Predation; Red fox; Tetraonids

Indexed keywords

BREEDING SUCCESS; FOREST FRAGMENTATIONS; GOSHAWK; GROUSE MANAGEMENT; PREDATION; RED FOX; TETRAONIDS;

ECOSYSTEMS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION STATISTICS; SNOW; TIMBER;

FORESTRY;

ABUNDANCE; BIOTELEMETRY; BOREAL FOREST; CANID; CENSUS; CLEARCUTTING; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FOREST MANAGEMENT; GAMEBIRD; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HABITAT SELECTION; MONITORING; NEST PREDATION; PLANTATION FORESTRY; POPULATION ECOLOGY; RAPTOR; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; SEASONALITY; SHRUB; SUCCESSION; SURVIVORSHIP; SYMPATRY; THINNING;

BIOLOGICAL POPULATIONS; BREEDING; ECOSYSTEMS; FORESTRY; FORESTS; SNOW; STATISTICS;

NORWAY;

ACCIPITER GENTILIS; AVES; TETRAO TETRIX; TETRAO UROGALLUS; TETRAONIDAE; VACCINIUM MYRTILLUS; VULPES; VULPES VULPES;

EID: 79952451004     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2011.01.041     Document Type: Article

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