Predicting the impacts of forest management on woodland caribou habitat suitability in black spruce boreal forest

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 245, Issue 1-3, 2007, Pages 137-147

  Brown, Glen S ^a   Rettie, W James ^b   Brooks, Ronald J ^a   Mallory, Frank F ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^b PARKS CANADA   (Canada)

^c LAURENTIAN UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Boreal forest; Forest management; Optimization model; Rangifer tarandus; Resource selection function

Indexed keywords

HARVESTING; SATELLITES; TELEMETERING; TIMBER; TRANSPORTATION;

BOREAL FORESTS; OPTIMIZATION MODELS; RANGIFER TARANDUS; RESOURCE SELECTION FUNCTIONS;

FORESTRY;

BOREAL FOREST; CONIFEROUS TREE; CONSERVATION; DEER; FOREST MANAGEMENT; OPTIMIZATION; WOODLAND;

FORESTS; HARVESTING; PICEA MARIANA; TELEMETRY; WOOD;

PICEA MARIANA; RANGIFER TARANDUS; RANGIFER TARANDUS CARIBOU;

EID: 34248647287     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2007.04.016     Document Type: Article

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