Community occupancy responses of small mammals to restoration treatments in ponderosa pine forests, northern Arizona, USA

Ecological Applications

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 204-217

  Kalies, E L ^a   Dickson, B G ^a   Chambers, C L ^a   Covington, W W ^a  

^a NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ecological restoration; Evolutionary environment; Microtus mogollonensis; Neotoma mexicana; Occupancy modeling; Peromyscus maniculatus; Pinus ponderosa; Sciurus aberti; Spermophilus lateralis; Spermophilus variegates; Tamias cinereicollis; Thomomys bottae

Indexed keywords

CONIFEROUS FOREST; CONIFEROUS TREE; DECOMPOSITION; GENERALIST; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SMALL MAMMAL; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; THINNING; UNDERSTORY; VEGETATION COVER; WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; METHODOLOGY; MURIDAE; PHYSIOLOGY; PONDEROSA PINE; SCIURIDAE; TREE; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALS; ARIZONA; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; MURIDAE; PINUS PONDEROSA; SCIURIDAE; TREES;

ARIZONA; UNITED STATES;

CONIFEROPHYTA; MAMMALIA; MICROTUS MOGOLLONENSIS; NEOTOMA MEXICANA; PEROMYSCUS MANICULATUS; PINUS PONDEROSA; SCIURUS ABERTI; SPERMOPHILUS; SPERMOPHILUS LATERALIS; TAMIAS CINEREICOLLIS; THOMOMYS BOTTAE;

EID: 84858690461     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/11-0758.1     Document Type: Article

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