The importance of environmental variability and management control error to optimal harvest policies

Journal of Wildlife Management

Volumn 68, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 585-594

  Hunter, Christine M ^a,c   Runge, Michael C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b PATUXENT WILDLIFE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

Dynamic programming; Elasticity; Environmental variability; Harvest; Management control error; Maximum sustainable yield; Optimal yield; State dependent strategies; Stochasticity; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; HARVESTING; STOCHASTICITY; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; UNGULATE; WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

CERVIDAE; ODOCOILEUS VIRGINIANUS; UNGULATA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 3843090685     PISSN: 0022541X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2193/0022-541X(2004)068[0585:TIOEVA]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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