Forecasting landscape-scale, cumulative effects of forest management on vegetation and wildlife habitat: A case study of issues, limitations, and opportunities

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 254, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 474-483

  Shifley, Stephen R ^a   Thompson III, Frank R ^a   Dijak, William D ^a   Fan, Zhaofei ^b  

^a U S DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

Disturbance; Forest landscape model; HARVEST; LANDIS; LANDSUM; Multi resource evaluation; SIMPPLE; Succession; Validation; VDDT

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECOSYSTEMS; VEGETATION;

FOREST LANDSCAPE MODEL; HARVEST; LANDIS; LANDSUM; MULTI-RESOURCE EVALUATION; SIMPPLE; SUCCESSION; VALIDATION; VDDT;

FORESTRY;

ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; FORECASTING METHOD; FOREST MANAGEMENT; HABITAT MANAGEMENT; MODELING; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; VEGETATION; WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT;

CALIBRATION; ECOSYSTEMS; FORESTRY; PLANTS; SIMULATION;

EID: 38349189711     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2007.08.030     Document Type: Article

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