Optimizing multiple dam removals under multiple objectives: Linking tributary habitat and the Lake Erie ecosystem

Water Resources Research

Volumn 45, Issue 12, 2009, Pages

  Zheng, Pearl Q ^a   Hobbs, Benjamin F ^a   Koonce, Joseph F ^b  

^a The Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

^b CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COST MODELS; DAM REMOVAL; ECOLOGICAL MODELS; ECONOMIC OBJECTIVES; ENVIRONMENTAL OBJECTIVES; HABITAT CHANGE; LAKE ERIE; MIXED INTEGER LINEAR PROGRAM; MULTIPLE OBJECTIVES; RESPONSE FUNCTIONS; SCREENING MODELS; SEA LAMPREYS; SITE-SPECIFIC; WEIGHTED SUM;

DAMS; ECOSYSTEMS; INTEGER PROGRAMMING; LAKES; OPTIMIZATION;

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS;

PETROMYZON; PETROMYZON MARINUS; STIZOSTEDION VITREUM;

EID: 77955143534     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008WR007589     Document Type: Article

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