The effects of variable retention forestry on coarse woody debris dynamics and concomitant impacts on American marten habitat after 27 years

• Main Authors: Farnell, Ingrid, Elkin, Ché, Lilles, Erica, Roberts, Anne-Marie, Venter, Michelle
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: NRC Research Press (a division of Canadian Science Publishing) 2020
• Subjects: Canada; British Columbia; American marten; Martes americana
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1807/101943; http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/abs/10.1139/cjfr-2019-0417

Coarse woody debris (CWD) in the form of logs, downed wood, stumps and large tree limbs is an important structural habitat feature for many small mammal species, including the American marten (Martes americana). At a long-term experimental trial in northern temperate hemlock-cedar forests of British...