Using stochastic simulation to evaluate competing risks of wildfires and fuels management on an isolated forest carnivore

Landscape Ecology

Volumn 26, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1491-1504

  Scheller, Robert M ^a,b   Spencer, Wayne D ^b   Rustigian Romsos, Heather ^b   Syphard, Alexandra D ^b   Ward, Brendan C ^b   Strittholt, James R ^b  

^a PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Conservation Biology Institute ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

California; Fire suppression; Fisher; Fuel treatments; Habitat modeling; Habitat suitability; LANDIS II; Martes pennanti; PATCH; Sierra Nevada; Wildfire

Indexed keywords

CARNIVORE; DEAD WOOD; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; DISTURBANCE; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; FECUNDITY; FIRE BEHAVIOR; FIRE MANAGEMENT; FOREST MANAGEMENT; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HABITAT QUALITY; ISOLATED POPULATION; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; METAPOPULATION; MODEL VALIDATION; MUSTELID; POPULATION SIZE; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SUCCESSION; SURVIVORSHIP; WILDFIRE;

CALIFORNIA; SIERRA NEVADA [CALIFORNIA]; UNITED STATES;

MARTES PENNANTI;

EID: 80855133517     PISSN: 09212973     EISSN: 15729761     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10980-011-9663-6     Document Type: Article

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