@article{mitchell_karriker_jones_lancia_1995, title={SMALL MAMMAL COMMUNITIES ASSOCIATED WITH PINE PLANTATION MANAGEMENT OF POCOSINS}, volume={59}, ISSN={["1937-2817"]}, DOI={10.2307/3801969}, abstractNote={To assess how habitat alterations can affect community structure, we compared small mammal populations in undisturbed pocosins with those in pocosins managed as pine (Pinus spp.) plantations. We used snap traps and pitfalls to sample small mammals in 3 pine plantations and 2 undisturbed pocosin habitat types in eastern North Carolina from May 1991 to May 1992. Small mammal community composition differed (P 0.05) an effect of plantation management on species associated with pocosins (short-tailed shrew [Blarina brevicauda], southeastern shrew [Sorex longirostris], cotton mouse [Peromyscus gossypinus], golden mouse [Ochrotomys nuttalli], white-footed mouse [P. leucopus]), possibly because pocosin-like habitat persisted in managed stands. Alternatively, the study design may have lacked statistical power to detect negative responses to disturbance evident in capture trends for these species. We hypothesize that management-related disturbance causes short-term declines or local extinctions of some small mammals, associated with pocosins, which later recover or recolonize. To minimize small mammal community changes associated with disturbance, we recommend managing habitat structure in pine plantations to emulate habitat of undisturbed pocosins.}, number={4}, journal={JOURNAL OF WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT}, author={MITCHELL, MS and KARRIKER, KS and JONES, EJ and LANCIA, RA}, year={1995}, month={Oct}, pages={875–881} }