Improving the quality of landscape ecological forest planning by utilising advanced decision-support tools

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 132, Issue 2-3, 2000, Pages 157-171

  Kangas, Jyrki ^a   Store, Ron ^a   Leskinen, Pekka ^a   Mehtätalo, Lauri ^a  

^a FINNISH FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

Author keywords

Bayesian statistics; Ecological modelling; Forest management; GIS; Multi criteria decision support; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; FORESTRY; PLANNING PROCESS;

EID: 0034234656     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1127(99)00221-2     Document Type: Article

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