Seedwhere: A computer tool to support seed transfer and ecological restoration decisions

Environmental Modelling and Software

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 589-595

  McKenney, Daniel W ^a   Mackey, Brendan G ^b   Joyce, Dennis ^c  

^a LAURENTIAN FORESTRY CENTRE   (Canada)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c ONTARIO FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Arcview; Climate grids; Forest management; GIS; Gower metric

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; COMPUTER HARDWARE; COMPUTER WORKSTATIONS; DATABASE SYSTEMS; DECISION MAKING; ECOLOGY; FORESTRY; PLANTS (BOTANY); RISK ASSESSMENT; SEED; UNIX;

ECOLOGICAL RESTORATION; FOREST MANAGEMENT; GOWER METRIC; SEED TRANSFER;

GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

COMPUTER; DECISION MAKING; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SEED;

EID: 0032754385     PISSN: 13648152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1364-8152(98)00095-4     Document Type: Article

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