Beech masting modifies the response of rodents to forest management

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 359, Issue , 2016, Pages 268-276

  Zwolak, Rafał ^a   Bogdziewicz, Michał ^a   Rychlik, Leszek ^a  

^a ADAM MICKIEWICZ UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Density dependent habitat selection; Forest harvest; Poland; Pulsed resources; Rodents; Small mammals

Indexed keywords

ECOSYSTEMS; FORECASTING; HARVESTING; MAMMALS; VEGETATION;

FOREST HARVEST; HABITAT SELECTION; POLAND; PULSED RESOURCES; RODENTS; SMALL MAMMALS;

FORESTRY;

ABUNDANCE; DECIDUOUS TREE; DENSITY DEPENDENCE; FOREST MANAGEMENT; HABITAT SELECTION; HABITAT TYPE; HARVESTING; MASTING; MICROHABITAT; PREDICTION; RODENT; SCARIFICATION; VEGETATION COVER;

APODEMUS FLAVICOLLIS; CLETHRIONOMYS GLAREOLUS; FAGUS; FAGUS SYLVATICA; MAMMALIA; MUS; RODENTIA;

EID: 84944907538     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2015.10.017     Document Type: Article

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