Small mammals exhibit limited spatiotemporal structure in Sierra Nevada forests

Journal of Mammalogy

Volumn 94, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1197-1213

  Kelt, Douglas A ^a   Van Vuren, Dirk H ^a   Johnson, Michael L ^a   Wilson, James A ^b   Innes, Robin J ^c   Jesmer, Brett R ^d   Ingram, Katherine P ^a   Smith, Jaya R ^d   Bigelow, Seth W ^e   Burnett, Ryan D ^f   Stine, Peter A ^a,g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA AT OMAHA   (United States)

^c ROCKY MOUNTAIN RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

^e Bionomics Environmental Inc   (United States)

^f PACIFIC SOUTHWEST RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

^g PRBO CONSERVATION SCIENCE   (United States)

Author keywords

forestmanagement; habitat associations; montane smallmammals; ordination; SierraNevada; stepwisemultiple regression

Indexed keywords

AKAIKE INFORMATION CRITERION; FOREST MANAGEMENT; HABITAT MANAGEMENT; HUMAN ACTIVITY; INVASIVE SPECIES; LOGGING (TIMBER); MONTANE FOREST; ORDINATION; SMALL MAMMAL; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; THINNING; TRAPPING;

CALIFORNIA; PLUMAS NATIONAL FOREST; SIERRA NEVADA [CALIFORNIA]; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84890900629     PISSN: 00222372     EISSN: 15451542     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1644/12-MAMM-A-303     Document Type: Article

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