DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2015.11.026
Scopus记录号: 2-s2.0-84947739656
论文题名: Landscape fuel reduction, forest fire, and biophysical linkages to local habitat use and local persistence of fishers (Pekania pennanti) in Sierra Nevada mixed-conifer forests
作者: Sweitzer R.A. ; Furnas B.J. ; Barrett R.H. ; Purcell K.L. ; Thompson C.M.
刊名: Forest Ecology and Management
ISSN: 0378-1127
出版年: 2016
卷: 361 起始页码: 208
结束页码: 225
语种: 英语
英文关键词: Fisher
; Fuel reduction
; Logging
; Mastication
; Pekania pennanti
; Wildfires
Scopus关键词: Cameras
; Cells
; Cytology
; Deforestation
; Ecosystems
; Fire hazards
; Fires
; Fuels
; Logging (forestry)
; Mastication
; Surveys
; Ecological recoveries
; Fisher
; Fuel reduction
; Fuel reduction treatment
; Pekania pennanti
; Probability of detection
; Sierra Nevada mixed conifers
; Wildfires
; Forestry
; coniferous forest
; disturbance
; forest fire
; forest management
; fuel
; habitat use
; logging (timber)
; mixed forest
; mustelid
; persistence
; probability
; trap (equipment)
; videography
; wildfire
; Andalucia
; Sierra Nevada National Park
; Spain
; Coniferophyta
英文摘要: Fire suppression and logging have contributed to major changes in California's Sierra Nevada forests. Strategically placed landscape treatments (SPLATS) are being used to reduce density of trees, shrubs, and surface fuels to limit wildfire intensity and spread, but may negatively impact fishers (Pekania pennanti). We used camera traps to survey for fishers among 1-km2 grid cells of forest habitat in the Sierra National Forest, California. We used single-season (n=894 cells) and multi-season (n=361 cells) occupancy modeling to evaluate responses of fishers to fuel reduction in the 5years prior to camera surveys. We also assessed occupancy in relation to burn history, elevation, and an index of canopy cover. Camera traps detected fishers most often between 1380m and 1970m elevation, and fisher occupancy was maximized at 0.80 at 1640m elevation. Probability of detection was higher after initial fisher detection, in habitats with high canopy cover, and when surveys were done in fall to spring. Fisher occupancy was positively linked to canopy cover, and trended lower among cells with higher levels of managed burning or forest fires within 25years of surveys, and in cells where 5years of cumulative disturbance from restorative fuel reduction was higher. Local persistence declined 24% in areas with more restorative fuel reduction (0-100% of a cell), but was not diminished by prior burning, or disturbance from extractive activities (tree removals for commerce or hazard mitigation). Reduced local persistence by fishers in areas with extensive restorative fuel reduction was likely temporary; evidence from other sources intimated that they would resume higher use within a few years of ecological recovery. The trend for lower occupancy in extensively burned forest cells suggested that forest fires reduced but did not eliminate foraging opportunities for fishers. We also found that wildfires increased in frequency in our study area after the 1980s, and recent fires may increasingly impinge on higher elevation forests with higher fisher occupancy. Forest fuel reduction likely imposes a more limited short term cost to fisher habitat use than previously believed, but less is known about the responses of resting or denning fishers to management disturbance. Fuel reduction treatments could be intensified below ~1450 m elevation, which may reduce spread of fires into higher elevation forests where fishers are more common, and where denning is focused. © 2015. Citation statistics:
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标识符: http://119.78.100.158/handle/2HF3EXSE/65114
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作者单位: Great Basin Institute, 16750 Mount Rose Highway, Reno, NV, United States; California Department of Fish and Wildlife, 601 Locust Street, Redding, CA, United States; Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, University of California, Berkeley, CA, United States; USDA Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Research Station, 2081 E. Sierra Avenue, Fresno, CA, United States
Recommended Citation:
Sweitzer R.A.,Furnas B.J.,Barrett R.H.,et al. Landscape fuel reduction, forest fire, and biophysical linkages to local habitat use and local persistence of fishers (Pekania pennanti) in Sierra Nevada mixed-conifer forests[J]. Forest Ecology and Management,2016-01-01,361