Testing the robustness of management decisions to uncertainty: Everglades restoration scenarios

Ecological Applications

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 711-723

  Fuller, Michael M ^a,c   Gross, Louis J ^a   Duke Sylvester, Scott M ^a,b   Palmer, Mark ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Everglades restoration; Habitat index models; Relative assessment; Resource management; Scenario analysis; Spatially explicit models

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; ECOSYSTEM RESPONSE; ENVIRONMENTAL RESTORATION; FORECASTING METHOD; HYDROLOGICAL RESPONSE; MODEL TEST; NATURE RESERVE; TESTING METHOD; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EVERGLADES; FLORIDA [UNITED STATES]; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

ALLIGATOR; ALLIGATOR MISSISSIPPIENSIS; AVES;

RAIN; WATER;

ALLIGATOR; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLIMATE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCTION; UNITED STATES; WETLAND;

ALLIGATORS AND CROCODILES; ANIMALS; CLIMATE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FLORIDA; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RAIN; REPRODUCTION; WATER; WETLANDS;

EID: 54549109013     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/06-0838.1     Document Type: Article

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