The response of mammals to forest fire and timber harvest in the North American boreal forest

By Jason T. Fisher, Lisa. Wilkinson. 2005

401 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Ecology, Global and Planetary Change

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In Ecology

1. D. Fauteux
2. Pierre Drapeau
3. L. Imbeau
4. J. Ouellet
5. R. Zwolak
6. Michael Flannigan
7. R. Courtois
8. D. Fortin

In Global and Planetary Change

1. Pierre Drapeau
2. Christian Messier
3. R. Zwolak
4. Michael Flannigan
5. D. Fortin
6. Yves Bergeron
7. Garry D. Peterson
8. M. Mazerolle

Citations in the corpus

• NEST DENSITIES OF CAVITY-NESTING BIRDS IN RELATION TO POSTFIRE SALVAGE LOGGING AND TIME SINCE WILDFIRE (2007, background): “…nest survival in the later postfire period may be a result of increasing predation pressure or declining food abundance (Saab and Vierling 2001, Saab et al. 2004), as small mammalian predators, such as red squirrels (Tamiasciurus hudsonicus), recolonize wildfire areas (Fisher and Wilkinson 2005).”
• Habitat selection by black bears in an intensively logged boreal forest (2008, background): “Forest stands brought to early seral stages by logging activity now characterize most of the coniferous and mixed forests in northern habitats (Fisher and Wilkinson 2005).”
• Small mammal responses to coarse woody debris distribution at different spatial scales in managed and unmanaged boreal forests (2012, background): “Red-backed voles are often less abundant in harvested stands (Fisher and Wilkinson, 2005), but predictions from our models indicate that patches of partial cuts with high volumes of well decayed CWD (11.”
• A meta-analysis of the effects of wildfire, clearcutting, and partial harvest on the abundance of North American small mammals (2009, background): “Little is known about the effects of forest disturbances on the numbers and activity of predators (Fisher and Wilkinson, 2005), but if predation was driving disturbance-related changes in rodent abundance, it would almost certainly do it through changes in survival.”
• Can forest management based on natural disturbances maintain ecological resilience (2006, background): “Other important salvage impacts include the recruitment dynamics of trees that require nurse logs for regeneration and habitat for cavity-nesting birds and other keystone taxa (Harmon et al. 1986; Imbeau et al. 2001; Nappi et al. 2004; Fisher and Wilkinson 2005).”