Multi-criteria evaluation of multi-purpose stand treatment programmes for Finnish boreal forests under changing climate

Ecological Indicators

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 26-45

  Briceño Elizondo, Elemer ^a   Jäger, Dietmar ^b   Lexer, Manfred J ^b   Garcia Gonzalo, Jordi ^a   Peltola, Heli ^a   Kellomäki, Seppo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

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

Author keywords

Boreal forest; Climate change; Forest management; Multi criteria analysis; Utility model

Indexed keywords

CARBON; CLIMATE CHANGE; FINLAND; FORESTRY; PHYSIOLOGICAL MODELS;

BOREAL FORESTS; MULTI CRITERIA ANALYSIS; UTILITY MODELS;

ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING;

BIODIVERSITY; BOREAL FOREST; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; FOREST MANAGEMENT; FORESTRY PRODUCTION; GROWTH MODELING; PHYSIOLOGY; SIMULATION; STAKEHOLDER;

CLIMATES; ECOLOGY; FINLAND; FORESTS;

EURASIA; EUROPE; FINLAND; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA;

EID: 35048871506     PISSN: 1470160X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2006.12.001     Document Type: Article

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