Southern flying squirrel (Glaucomys volans) COSEWIC assessment and status report
Official title: Southern Flying Squirrel (Glaucomys Volans)
Table of contents
- Assessment Summary
- Executive Summary from the 1998 Status Report
- COSEWIC History, Mandate, Membership and Definitions
- Lists of Figures and Tables
- Species Information
- Distribution
- Habitat
- Biology
- Population Sizes and Trends: Great Lakes Population
- Population Sizes and Trends: Atlantic Population
- Limiting Factors and Threats
- Special Significance of the Species
- Existing Protection or Other Status Designations
- Technical Summary
- Acknowledgements, Authorities Contacted, and Information Sources
COSEWIC
Assessment and Update Status Report
on the
Southern Flying Squirrel
Glaucomys volans
Atlantic (Nova Scotia) population
Great Lakes Plains population
in Canada
Not at Risk
2006
COSEWIC
Committee on the Status
of Endangered Wildlife
in Canada
COSEPAC
Comité sur la situation
des espèces en péril
au Canada
COSEWIC status reports are working documents used in assigning the status of wildlife species suspected of being at risk. This report may be cited as follows:
COSEWIC 2006. COSEWIC assessment and update status report on the southern flying squirrel Glaucomys volans (Atlantic (Nova Scotia) population and Great Lakes Plains population) in Canada. Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada. Ottawa. vii + 33 pp.
(Species at Risk Status Reports)
Previous Report:
Stabb, M. 1988. COSEWIC status report on the southern flying squirrel Glaucomys volans in Canada. Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada. 1-91 pp.
(Species at Risk Status Reports)
COSEWIC would like to acknowledge Ian Adams and Ewa Bednarczuk for writing the update status report on the southern flying squirrel Glaucomys volans (Atlantic (Nova Scotia) and Great Lakes Plains population) in Canada, prepared under contract with Environment Canada, overseen and edited by MarcoFesta-Bianchet,Co-chair (Terrestrial Mammals), COSEWIC Terrestrial Mammals Species Specialist Subcommittee.
For additional copies contact:
COSEWIC Secretariat
c/o Canadian Wildlife Service
Environment Canada
Ottawa ON
K1A 0H3
Tel.: 819–953–3215
Fax: 819–994–3684
E-mail: COSEWIC/COSEPAC@ec.gc.ca
http://www.cosewic.gc.ca
Également disponible en français sous le titre Évaluation et Rapport de situation du COSEPAC sur le petit polatouche (Glaucomys volans) , population de l'Atlantique (Nouvelle-Écosse) et population des plaines des Grands Lacs, au Canada - Mise à jour.
Cover illustration:
Southern flying squirrel -- Photograph by ©Philip Myers.
© Her Majesty the Queen in Right of Canada 2006
Catalogue No.: CW69-14/501-2006E-PDF
ISBN: 0-662-43315-7
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