scholarly journals Nahuel Huapi National Park, Argentina: conservation effectiveness assessment through monitoring small mammal communities

PARKS ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 15-26
Author(s):  
Maria Daniela Rivarola ◽  
Daniel Simberloff ◽  
Christy Leppanen
Author(s):  
D. Shown ◽  
N. Sloan

Wind Cave National Park initiated a prescribed burning program in 1972. Yearly burns have been conducted since to evaluate the effects of fire on the park biota. This project was begun to study what effects burning is having on bird and small mammal populations within the grassland community.


Author(s):  
Jon Forde ◽  
Norman Sloan

Specifically, the objectives of this research project were to: 1) Census burned and unburned grassland areas for breeding populations of birds and small mammals. Population censuses have been made on areas prescribed burned between 1973 and 1978 as well as the areas burned in the spring of 1981; 2) Analyze study transect vegetation to determine the impact of burning treatments on prairie vegetation and its relationship to bird and small mammal densities; 3) Provide usable management recommendations that will aid not only in vegetation maintenance but also with the animal populations associated with the grasslands.


Author(s):  
R. Moore ◽  
M. Wood

As part of the National Park Service's goal of maintaining an area in as natural condition as possible, Yellowstone National Park in 1972 developed a fire policy whereby natural fires were allowed to burn in wilderness areas of the park. Several investigators have studied the relationship between small mammals and fire due to timber management practices (Gashwiler, 1970 and Tevis, 1956) but few studies have investigated the changes in abundance and composition of species of small mammals after recent natural fires (Bendell 1974). The purpose of this ongoing study is to quantify the effects that recent natural fires have had upon small mammal communities. Two burn sites were studies, the Divide fire which burned in 1976 on the south arm of Yellowstone Lake, and the Trail Creek Fire which burned in 1974 on the southeast arm of the lake.


Author(s):  
D. Shown ◽  
N. Sloan

Wind Cave National Park began a prescribed burning program in 1972. Since that time various studies have been carried out to investigate what effect fire has on the vegetative communities within the Park. However, no study has dealt with the effects of fire on the bird and mammal population within the grassland association.


Science ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 322 (5899) ◽  
pp. 261-264 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Moritz ◽  
J. L. Patton ◽  
C. J. Conroy ◽  
J. L. Parra ◽  
G. C. White ◽  
...  

Author(s):  
Nancy Stanton ◽  
Steven Buskirk ◽  
Steven Miller

One primary objective of this study was to survey small mammal communities in a burn chronosequence. During the summer of 1990, small mammals were live-trapped in five burned sites and in adjacent unburned coniferous forests in and around Grand Teton National Park. In 1991, two burns (Huckleberry Mountain, 1988 fires) and adjacent unburned forests were trapped for the third consecutive year in June, July and August to continue to monitor post-burn small mammal population trends and species composition. In addition, in 1991 rodents were live-trapped from seven vegetation types along an elevational gradient, and microhabitat measurements were made at successful and unsuccessful trap stations within each vegetation type. The purpose was to survey small mammal communities in common habitat types within the Park and to determine whether microhabitat features can be used to predict trap success for common rodent species.


Author(s):  
J. Forde ◽  
N. Sloan

Wind Cave National Park initiated a prescribed burning program in 1972 and yearly burns have been conducted since to evaluate the effects of fire on the Park biota. This research project is designed to determine what effects burning is having on bird and small mammal populations within the grassland community. The objectives of this investigation include: 1. Comparisons of bird and small mammal population levels between pre- and post-burn transects and between burned and control areas; and 2. Vegetation sampling to demonstrate the importance of certain plant species densities and stand composition for the various species of birds and small mammals.


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