Analyzing consistency of experts' judgments - Case of assessing forest biodiversity

Forest Science

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 610-617

  Kangas, Jyrki ^a   Alho, Juha M ^b   Kolehmainen, Osmo ^b   Mononen, Ari ^c  

^a FINNISH FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

^c EUROPEAN FOREST INSTITUTE   (Finland)

Author keywords

Delphi technique; Ecological modeling; Expert judgment; Forest planning; Variance components modeling

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031796674     PISSN: 0015749X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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