Maximum principle for a size-structured model of forest and carbon sequestration management

Applied Mathematics Letters

Volumn 21, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1090-1094

  Hritonenko, Natali ^a   Yatsenko, Yuri ^b   Goetz, Renan Ulrich ^c   Xabadia, Angels ^c  

^a PRAIRIE VIEW A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HOUSTON BAPTIST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GIRONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Nonlinear integral differential equations; Optimal control; Size structured population models

Indexed keywords

CARBON; DIFFERENCE EQUATIONS; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; DIFFERENTIATION (CALCULUS); INTEGRAL EQUATIONS;

CARBON SEQUESTRATIONS; INTRA-SPECIES COMPETITION; NONLINEAR INTEGRAL-DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; NONLINEAR OPTIMAL CONTROL; OBJECTIVE FUNCTION; OPERATIONAL EXPENSES; OPTIMAL CONTROL; OPTIMAL MANAGEMENT; SIZE-STRUCTURED POPULATION MODELS; TIMBER PRODUCTION;

NONLINEAR EQUATIONS;

EID: 48849088939     PISSN: 08939659     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aml.2007.12.006     Document Type: Article

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