Timber supply implications of natural disturbance management

Forestry Chronicle

Volumn 75, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 497-504

  Armstrong, Glen W ^a   Cumming, Steven G ^a   Adamowicz, Wiktor L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; FORESTRY PRODUCTION; MANAGEMENT PRACTICE; MAXIMUM SUSTAINABLE YIELD; TIMBER HARVESTING;

EID: 0033133816     PISSN: 00157546     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5558/tfc75497-3     Document Type: Conference Paper

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