Decision support for integrated landscape evaluation and restoration planning

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 207, Issue 1-2 SPEC. ISS., 2005, Pages 263-278

  Reynolds, Keith M ^a   Hessburg, Paul F ^b  

^a PACIFIC NORTHWEST RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

^b PACIFIC NORTHWEST RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Criterion DecisionPlus; Decision support; EMDS; Historical range of variation; Landscape evaluation; Monitoring; NetWeaver; Restoration; Scenario planning

Indexed keywords

COMPOSITION; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; ECOLOGY; LAND USE; PLANNING; RESTORATION; VEGETATION; WATERSHEDS; WOOD;

DOWN WOOD; FOREST STRUCTURAL CONDITIONS; LANDSCAPE EVALUATION; REFERENCE VARIATION (RV); SNAGS; TREE SPECIES COMPOSITION;

FORESTRY;

FOREST MANAGEMENT; HUMAN SETTLEMENT; LANDSCAPE PLANNING; RESTORATION ECOLOGY;

CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; DECISION MAKING; FOREST MANAGEMENT; LAND USE; PLANTS; RESTORATION; WOOD;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

EID: 14644426622     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2004.10.040     Document Type: Conference Paper

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