A target-oriented approach to forest ecosystem design - Changing the rules of forest planning

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 127, Issue 2-3, 2000, Pages 269-281

  Liu, Guoliang ^a   Nelson, John D ^b   Wardman, Chad W ^a  

^a 850 West 15th Street   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Adaptive management; Ecosystem planning; Forest harvest scheduling; Landscape design; Optimization; Simulated annealing; Target oriented

Indexed keywords

ECOSYSTEM MODELING; FOREST ECOSYSTEM;

CANADA;

EID: 0034732307     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3800(99)00217-3     Document Type: Article

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