Integrated analysis of landscape management scenarios using state and transition models in the upper Grande Ronde River Subbasin, Oregon, USA

Landscape and Urban Planning

Volumn 80, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 198-211

  Hemstrom, Miles A ^a   Merzenich, James ^b   Reger, Allison ^b   Wales, Barbara ^a  

^a PACIFIC NORTHWEST RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

^b USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Forest disturbance; Forest structure; Historical range of variability; Interior northwest landscape analysis system; Landscape ecology; Landscape models; Pacific northwest

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENTS; ECOLOGY; PROBABILITY; VEGETATION;

ACTIVE FUEL TREATMENT; FIRE SUPPRESSION; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; LANDSCAPE MODELS;

FORESTRY;

ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; FIRE MANAGEMENT; FOREST DYNAMICS; HABITAT MANAGEMENT; INTEGRATED APPROACH; LANDSCAPE CHANGE; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; NUMERICAL MODEL;

BASINS; ECOLOGY; FOREST FIRES; FORESTRY; PLANTS; PROBABILITY;

GRANDE RONDE BASIN; NORTH AMERICA; PACIFIC NORTHWEST; UNITED STATES;

HEXAPODA;

EID: 33947716074     PISSN: 01692046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.landurbplan.2006.10.004     Document Type: Article

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