Simulating avian species and foraging group responses to fuel reduction treatments in coniferous forests

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 304, Issue , 2013, Pages 261-274

  White, Angela M ^a   Zipkin, Elise F ^b,c   Manley, Patricia N ^a   Schlesinger, Matthew D ^a,d,e  

^a PACIFIC SOUTHWEST RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

^b PATUXENT WILDLIFE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c Bldg 142   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e New York Natural Heritage Program   (United States)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Forest management; Functional group; Hierarchical modeling; Imperfect detection; Occurrence modeling

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY SIMILARITY; FUEL REDUCTION TREATMENT; HABITAT-SUITABILITY MODELS; HIERARCHICAL MODELING; MIXED-CONIFER FORESTS; STRUCTURAL COMPONENT; STRUCTURAL HETEROGENEITY; WESTERN UNITED STATES;

BIODIVERSITY; FIRE HAZARDS; FIRES; FUELS; FUNCTIONAL GROUPS;

FORESTRY;

AVIFAUNA; BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; BIODIVERSITY; BIRD; CANOPY ARCHITECTURE; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; COMMUNITY RESPONSE; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CONIFEROUS FOREST; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; FIRE MANAGEMENT; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; FOREST MANAGEMENT; FUNCTIONAL GROUP; HETEROGENEITY; MANAGEMENT PRACTICE; URBANIZATION; WILDFIRE;

BIODIVERSITY; FIRES; FOREST MANAGEMENT; FORESTRY; FUELS; FUNCTIONAL GROUPS; HAZARDS;

CALIFORNIA; LAKE TAHOE BASIN; SIERRA NEVADA [CALIFORNIA]; UNITED STATES;

AVES; CONIFEROPHYTA;

EID: 84878695782     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2013.04.039     Document Type: Article

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