Meeting the challenges of process-oriented forest management

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 248, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 1-5

  Fürst, Christine ^a   Vacik, Harald ^b   Lorz, Carsten ^a   Makeschin, Franz ^a   Podrazky, Vilem ^c   Janecek, Vladimir ^c  

^a DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

^c CZECH UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES PRAGUE   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Dynamic development; Forest ecosystems; Indicators; Models; Network for process oriented forest management; Processes

Indexed keywords

EID: 34447544536     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2007.02.031     Document Type: Editorial

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