Promoting large, compact mature forest patches in harvest scheduling models

Environmental Modeling and Assessment

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 1-15

  Tóth, Sándor F ^a   McDill, Marc E ^b  

^a OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dynamic habitat patches; Integer programming; Minimum perimeter; Spatially explicit forest planning; Tradeoffs

Indexed keywords

COMMERCE; INTEGER PROGRAMMING; SCHEDULING;

FOREST PLANNING; HABITAT PATCHES; HARVEST SCHEDULING MODEL; MATURE FOREST; MINIMUM PERIMETER; NET PRESENT VALUE; SPATIALLY EXPLICIT; TRADEOFFS;

FORESTRY;

ENVIRONMENTAL MODELING; ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING; FOREST MANAGEMENT; PATCH SIZE; TIMBER HARVESTING; TRADE-OFF;

EID: 38349048642     PISSN: 14202026     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10666-006-9080-4     Document Type: Article

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