Alberta biodiversity monitoring program - Monitoring effectiveness of sustainable forest management planning

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 121, Issue 1-3, 2006, Pages 33-46

  Stadt, J John ^a   Schieck, Jim ^b   Stelfox, Harry A ^a  

^a Alberta Sustainable Resource Development   (Canada)

^b ALBERTA RESEARCH COUNCIL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Alberta; Biodiversity; Effectiveness monitoring; Forest management; Resource management planning

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; MANAGEMENT; MONITORING; PUBLIC POLICY; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; STRATEGIC PLANNING; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

EFFECTIVENESS MONITORING; LANDSCAPE-LEVEL FEATURES; OPERATIONAL PLANNING;

FORESTRY;

BIODIVERSITY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING; FOREST MANAGEMENT;

AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; CANADA; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FOREST MANAGEMENT; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; MEDICAL RESEARCH; POLICY; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPECIES HABITAT; STANDARDIZATION; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; VALIDATION STUDY;

ALBERTA; ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FORESTRY; PROGRAM EVALUATION;

BIODIVERSITY; FORESTRY; MONITORING; PLANNING; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; SUSTAINABLE FOREST MANAGEMENT;

ALBERTA; CANADA; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 33750360773     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: 15732959     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10661-005-9075-7     Document Type: Article

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