2007
DOI: 10.1644/06-mamm-s-371r1.1
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Ecology ofGlaucomys sabrinus: Habitat, Demography, and Community Relations

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“…An ecologically important species in the frequent-fire forests of California and western North America (Smith 2007;Carey 2009) is G. sabrinus, the occurrence and abundance of which was unequivocally associated with unburned areas. G. sabrinus forages extensively on truffles (fruiting bodies of hypogeous fungi- Waters and Zabel 1995), and the abundance, biomass, and frequency of truffles are significantly lower in recently burned than unburned stands in Sierra Nevada frequent-fire forests (Meyer et al 2005(Meyer et al , 2008.…”
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“…An ecologically important species in the frequent-fire forests of California and western North America (Smith 2007;Carey 2009) is G. sabrinus, the occurrence and abundance of which was unequivocally associated with unburned areas. G. sabrinus forages extensively on truffles (fruiting bodies of hypogeous fungi- Waters and Zabel 1995), and the abundance, biomass, and frequency of truffles are significantly lower in recently burned than unburned stands in Sierra Nevada frequent-fire forests (Meyer et al 2005(Meyer et al , 2008.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Fire can be especially influential in structuring small mammal communities in forest ecosystems through the differential modification of available habitat structures (e.g., trees, snags, logs), thermal cover (e.g., tree canopy cover), or food availability and quality (e.g., understory plants, tree seeds, invertebrates- Lyon et al 2000b;Fisher and Wilkinson 2005). In forests of western North America, unburned and lowseverity burned habitats may retain critical features for forestdependent small mammal species, including but not limited to species such as Glaucomys sabrinus, Tamiasciurus douglasii, and Sciurus griseus; these arboreal species often require large habitat structures (i.e., trees, snags, logs) and intact forest canopies for survival and reproduction (Buchanan et al 1990;Smith 2007). G. sabrinus, in particular, is generally associated with old forests characterized by a complex structure of multilayer canopies, large-diameter trees and snags, and large decayed logs (Waters and Zabel 1995;Lehmkuhl et al 2006;Smith 2007); these features are often associated with fire exclusion in frequent-fire forest ecosystems.…”
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“…This arboreal species is reliant on old forest characteristics, is considered a forest keystone species (reviewed in Smith, 2007) and has been proposed as a forest management indicator species. The species' habitat associations, locomotion and general biology suggest that it may be particularly sensitive to landscape configuration (Carey, 2000;D'Eon et al, 2002;Scheibe et al, 2006;Smith and Person, 2007), however no previous study has assessed its response to landscape structure while controlling for the confounding effects of landscape composition and variation caused by site-scale habitat quality.…”
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“…Stands with a conifer component may offer more protective cover from predators for foraging CNFS than those without. The link between forest maturity or forest decadence, indicative of old-growth conditions that support diverse and abundant fungal communities, and optimal foraging and den conditions for northern flying squirrels has long been noted in the Pacific Northwest and southeast Alaska (Carey et al 1999, Smith 2007. Unfortunately, outside of a few areas in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park where substantive old-growth, high-elevation forest conditions and CNFS occur together, these conditions largely are absent at the landscape level in the remainder of the southern Appalachians or in the central Appalachians for VNFS.…”
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