Monitoring the short-term effects of prescribed fire on an endemic mollusk in the dry forests of the eastern Cascades, Washington, USA

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 261, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1460-1465

  Gaines, William L ^a   Lyons, Andrea L ^a   Weaver, Kathleen ^b   Sprague, Ann ^a  

^a USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LA VERNE   (United States)

Author keywords

Endemic; Mountainsnail; Prescribed fire

Indexed keywords

BLOCK DESIGNS; BURN TREATMENT; BURNED AREAS; DRY FORESTS; ENDEMIC; ENDEMIC SPECIES; FOREST RESTORATION; MANAGEMENT OBJECTIVES; MOUNTAINSNAIL; MULTIVARIATE REPEATED MEASURES ANALYSIS; NATURAL FIRE; POST TREATMENT; PRE-TREATMENT; PRESCRIBED BURNING; PRESCRIBED FIRES; RESTORATION TREATMENTS; SHORT-TERM EFFECTS; STATISTICALLY SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCE; TIME-PERIODS; WASHINGTON , USA;

CONSERVATION; FIRE HAZARDS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RESTORATION; SURVEYS;

FIRES;

CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; DRY FOREST; ENDEMIC SPECIES; HABITAT RESTORATION; MOUNTAIN REGION; PRESCRIBED BURNING; RARE SPECIES; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SNAIL; VARIANCE ANALYSIS;

CASCADE RANGE; UNITED STATES; WASHINGTON [UNITED STATES];

GASTROPODA; MOLLUSCA; OREOHELIX;

EID: 79953900368     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2011.01.034     Document Type: Article

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