Short-term responses of native rodents to aggregated retention in old growth wet Eucalyptus forests

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 267, Issue , 2012, Pages 18-27

  Stephens, Helen C ^a,b   Baker, Susan C ^a,b,c   Potts, Brad M ^a,b   Munks, Sarah A ^a,b,d   Stephens, Diane ^a   O'Reilly Wapstra, Julianne M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^b Cooperative Research Centre for Forestry ^*  (Australia)

^c FORESTRY TASMANIA   (Australia)

^d Forest Practices Authority   (Australia)

Author keywords

Green tree retention; Group retention; Pseudomys higginsi; Rattus lutreolus; Small mammals; Variable retention

Indexed keywords

GREEN-TREE RETENTION; GROUP RETENTION; PSEUDOMYS HIGGINSI; RATTUS LUTREOLUS; SMALL MAMMALS; VARIABLE RETENTION;

AGGREGATES; BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEMS; HARVESTING; LIFEBOATS; RATS; TIMBER; VEGETATION; WETLANDS;

FORESTRY;

AGGREGATION; BIODIVERSITY; EVERGREEN FOREST; FOREST MANAGEMENT; HABITAT TYPE; HARVESTING; LANDSCAPE; MATRIX; NATIVE SPECIES; OLD-GROWTH FOREST; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; RECOLONIZATION; RODENT; SILVICULTURE; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE;

EUCALYPTUS; MAMMALIA; PSEUDOMYS HIGGINSI; RATTUS; RATTUS LUTREOLUS; RODENTIA; SCAPTEROMYS TUMIDUS;

EID: 83755164226     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2011.11.037     Document Type: Article

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