The Relationship Between the Understory Shrub Component of Coastal Forests and
The physical structure of vegetation is an important predictor of habitat for wildlife species. The coastal forests of the Redwood region are highly productive, supporting structurally-diverse forest habitats. The major elements of structural diversity in these forests include trees, shrubs, and her...
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ftciteseerx:oai:CiteSeerX.psu:10.1.1.192.271 2023-05-15T13:21:51+02:00 The Relationship Between the Understory Shrub Component of Coastal Forests and The Conservation Of Forest Carnivores Keith M. Slauson William J. Zielinski The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives application/pdf http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.192.271 http://www.fs.fed.us/psw/publications/documents/psw_gtr194/psw_gtr194_37.pdf en eng http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.192.271 http://www.fs.fed.us/psw/publications/documents/psw_gtr194/psw_gtr194_37.pdf Metadata may be used without restrictions as long as the oai identifier remains attached to it. http://www.fs.fed.us/psw/publications/documents/psw_gtr194/psw_gtr194_37.pdf text ftciteseerx 2016-01-07T16:55:56Z The physical structure of vegetation is an important predictor of habitat for wildlife species. The coastal forests of the Redwood region are highly productive, supporting structurally-diverse forest habitats. The major elements of structural diversity in these forests include trees, shrubs, and herbaceous plants, which together create three-dimensional complexity. In the forests of the northern Redwood region, dense, continuous shrub layers were common understory structural elements in mature forests (Sawyer and others 2000). However, within the last 60 to 80 years, most of these forests have been logged and subsequently managed on short rotations (for example, 60 years) to maximize the production of wood. This has resulted in a reduction in the complexity of shrub and herb layers in these forests due to a combination of detrimental factors (for example, mechanical damage, burning, herbiciding, competition for light with densely stocked stands, fragmentation by roads). We investigated the importance of shrub cover to three species of mesocarnivores, the American marten (Martes americana), fisher (M. pennanti), and gray fox (Urocyon cinereoargenteus). Text American marten Martes americana Unknown |
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The physical structure of vegetation is an important predictor of habitat for wildlife species. The coastal forests of the Redwood region are highly productive, supporting structurally-diverse forest habitats. The major elements of structural diversity in these forests include trees, shrubs, and herbaceous plants, which together create three-dimensional complexity. In the forests of the northern Redwood region, dense, continuous shrub layers were common understory structural elements in mature forests (Sawyer and others 2000). However, within the last 60 to 80 years, most of these forests have been logged and subsequently managed on short rotations (for example, 60 years) to maximize the production of wood. This has resulted in a reduction in the complexity of shrub and herb layers in these forests due to a combination of detrimental factors (for example, mechanical damage, burning, herbiciding, competition for light with densely stocked stands, fragmentation by roads). We investigated the importance of shrub cover to three species of mesocarnivores, the American marten (Martes americana), fisher (M. pennanti), and gray fox (Urocyon cinereoargenteus). |
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The Relationship Between the Understory Shrub Component of Coastal Forests and |
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