Identifying and mapping the protective forests of southeast Mt. Olympus as a tool for sustainable ecological and silvicultural planning, in a multi-purpose forest management framework

Ecological Engineering

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 286-293

  Zagas, Theocharis D ^a   Raptis, Dimitrios I ^a   Zagas, Dimitrios Th ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Forest management; Forest planning; GIS; Multipurpose forests; Silvicultural treatments; Universal soil loss equation

Indexed keywords

FOREST MANAGEMENT; FOREST PLANNING; GIS; MULTIPURPOSE FORESTS; SILVICULTURAL TREATMENTS; UNIVERSAL SOIL LOSS EQUATION;

ECOSYSTEMS; EROSION; FORESTRY; REGIONAL PLANNING; RURAL AREAS; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SOILS;

PLANNING;

ALTITUDE; BIOINDICATOR; CALIBRATION; DISTURBANCE; FOREST COVER; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; FOREST MANAGEMENT; GIS; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; MANMADE STRUCTURE; MOUNTAIN ENVIRONMENT; NATURAL HAZARD; NUMERICAL MODEL; PROTECTED AREA; SILVICULTURE; SOIL EROSION; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; TOPOGRAPHIC MAPPING;

ECOSYSTEMS; EROSION; FORESTS; GEOLOGY; HAZARDS; MAPPING; PLANNING; SEDIMENTS; SILVICULTURE; SUSTAINABLE FOREST MANAGEMENT;

GREECE; MOUNT OLYMPUS; THESSALY;

EID: 78751705389     PISSN: 09258574     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoleng.2010.11.004     Document Type: Article

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