Landscape-level habitat supply modelling to develop and evaluate management practices that maintain diverse forest values in a dry forest ecosystem in southern British Columbia

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 258, Issue SUPPL., 2009, Pages

  Klenner, Walt ^a   Walton, Russ ^a  

^a RESEARCH BRANCH   (Canada)

Author keywords

Dry forest management; Forest fuel management; Forest landscape modelling; Land use planning; Natural disturbances; Resource management zoning; Wildlife habitat

Indexed keywords

DRY FORESTS; FOREST FUEL; FOREST LANDSCAPE; LAND USE PLANNING; NATURAL DISTURBANCE; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT ZONING; WILDLIFE HABITATS;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; ECONOMICS; ECOSYSTEMS; FORESTRY; FUELS; HARVESTING; LAND USE; MAINTENANCE; NATURAL RESOURCES MANAGEMENT; PRODUCTIVITY; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; TIMBER; ZONING;

PLANNING;

BIODIVERSITY; DISTURBANCE; DRY FOREST; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; FOREST MANAGEMENT; FOSSIL FUEL; LAND USE PLANNING; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; NATURAL RESOURCE; TIMBER HARVESTING; WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; ECONOMICS; ECOSYSTEMS; FOREST MANAGEMENT; FORESTRY; FORESTS; FUELS; HARVESTING; LAND USE; MAINTENANCE; NATURAL RESOURCES; PLANNING; PRODUCTIVITY; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT;

BRITISH COLUMBIA; CANADA; KAMLOOPS; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 71949122861     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2009.07.047     Document Type: Article

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