Endangered seabird habitat management as a partially observable markov decision process

Marine Resource Economics

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 93-104

  Tomberlin, David ^a  

^a NATIONAL MARINE FISHERIES SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive management; Marbled murrelet; Partially observable markov decision process

Indexed keywords

BRACHYRAMPHUS; BRACHYRAMPHUS MARMORATUS;

EID: 77953495944     PISSN: 07381360     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5950/0738-1360-25.1.93     Document Type: Article

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