Indicators to assess biological diversity: Weyerhaeuser's coastal British Columbia forest project

Forestry Chronicle

Volumn 79, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 590-601

  Kremsater, Laurie ^a   Bunnell, Fred ^b   Huggard, Dave ^a   Dunsworth, Glen ^a  

^a UBC ^*

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Adaptive management; Indicators for monitoring forests; Variable retention harvesting

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEMS; FORESTRY; HARVESTING;

VARIABLE RETENTION (VR);

BIODIVERSITY;

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEM MANAGEMENT; FOREST MANAGEMENT; HARVESTING; SILVICULTURE;

BRITISH COLUMBIA; CANADA;

AMPHIBIA; ANIMALIA; AVES; BRYOPHYTES; CARABIDAE; COLEOPTERA; GASTROPODA; MYCORRHIZAE; SCIURIDAE; STRIGIFORMES;

EID: 0141460746     PISSN: 00157546     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5558/tfc79590-3     Document Type: Conference Paper

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