Temporal changes in the relative abundance of amphibians relative to riparian buffer width in western Washington, USA

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 274, Issue , 2012, Pages 67-80

  Hawkes, Virgil C ^a,b   Gregory, Patrick T ^b  

^a LGL LIMITED   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Clearcut logging; Frogs; Salamanders; Species richness; Stream management zones

Indexed keywords

ADVERSE EFFECT; AFTER-TREATMENT; ASCAPHUS TRUEI; COASTAL TAILED FROGS; FORESTED LANDSCAPES; FOURTH-ORDER; FROGS; GLOBAL RESPONSE; MATURE FOREST; NATURAL POPULATION; PACIFIC NORTHWEST; POST TREATMENT; RANDOM ASSIGNMENT; REGIONAL SCALE; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; RIPARIAN AREAS; RIPARIAN BUFFERS; RIPARIAN MANAGEMENT; SALAMANDERS; SILVICULTURAL TREATMENTS; SITE EFFECTS; SPATIAL SCALE; SPECIES RICHNESS; STREAM MANAGEMENT; TEMPORAL CHANGE; TIMBER HARVESTING; TIMBER HARVESTS; TIME LAG; TIME-SERIES DATA; TREATMENT EFFECTS; WASHINGTON; WASHINGTON , USA;

POPULATION STATISTICS;

LOGGING (FORESTRY);

AMPHIBIAN; CLEARCUTTING; FOREST MANAGEMENT; LANDSCAPE; LOGGING (TIMBER); POPULATION SIZE; RARE SPECIES; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; RIPARIAN VEGETATION; SILVICULTURE; SPECIES RICHNESS; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

BIOLOGICAL POPULATIONS; CLEAR CUTTING; LOGGING; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; STATISTICS; STREAM FLOW; WASHINGTON;

UNITED STATES; WASHINGTON [UNITED STATES];

AMPHIBIA; ANURA; ASCAPHUS TRUEI; ENSATINA; ENSATINA ESCHSCHOLTZII; PLETHODON VEHICULUM; SALAMANDROIDEA;

EID: 84858960160     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2012.02.015     Document Type: Article

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