Optimal Harvest Strategy for Slash Pine Plantations: The Impact of Autocorrelated Prices for Multiple Products

Forest Science

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 10-19

  Gong, Peichen ^a   Yin, Runsheng ^b  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Decision analysis; Forest management; Reservation price; Rotation age

Indexed keywords

DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING; HARVESTING; HERBICIDES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

RESERVATION PRICES; SILVICULTURE;

FORESTRY;

PINUS ELLIOTTII;

EID: 1242265369     PISSN: 0015749X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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