Modeling trade-offs between fire threat reduction and late-seral forest structure

Canadian Journal of Forest Research

Volumn 35, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 2562-2574

  Calkin, David E ^a   Stevens Hummel, Susan ^b   Agee, James K ^c  

^a ROCKY MOUNTAIN RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

^b PACIFIC NORTHWEST RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FIRES; NATURAL RESOURCES; OPTIMIZATION;

FIRE THREAT (FT); FOREST RESOURCES; LATE-SERAL FOREST (LSF);

FORESTRY;

ECOLOGICAL MODELING; FIRE MANAGEMENT; FOREST DYNAMICS; FOREST MANAGEMENT; HABITAT MANAGEMENT; SILVICULTURE; STAND STRUCTURE; TRADE-OFF;

ALGORITHMS; FOREST FIRES; FOREST MANAGEMENT; NATURAL RESOURCES; OPTIMIZATION; SIMULATION;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33644522063     PISSN: 00455067     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/x05-177     Document Type: Article

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