Forest growth-and-yield modelling: Questioning support for sustainable forest management

Journal of Sustainable Forestry

Volumn 7, Issue 3-4, 1998, Pages 131-143

  Corona, Piermaria ^a   Scotti, Roberto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOREST MANAGEMENT; FOREST PRODUCTIVITY; MODELLING APPROACH; SUSTAINABLE FORESTRY;

CULTIVATION; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEMS; PROFESSIONAL ASPECTS; STRATEGIC PLANNING; TIMBER;

FOREST MANAGEMENT; SILVICULTURE; TREES; YIELD;

FORESTRY;

EID: 0032226515     PISSN: 10549811     EISSN: 1540756X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J091v07n03_08     Document Type: Article

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