Forest naturalness: Criterion for decision support in designation and management of protected forest areas

Environmental Management

Volumn 46, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 908-919

  Moravčík, Martin ^a   Sarvašová, Zuzana ^a   Merganič, Ján ^a,b   Schwarz, Matej ^a  

^a FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Slovakia)

^b CZECH UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES PRAGUE   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Decision making support in forest utilisation; Evaluation of forest naturalness; Forest protected area; Indicators and models of forest naturalness

Indexed keywords

ADDITIVE MODELS; AGGREGATION INDEX; ARITHMETIC MEAN; CARPATHIANS; CLASSIFICATION MODELS; COEFFICIENT OF VARIATION; CROWN LENGTHS; DECISION MAKING PROCESS; DECISION MAKING SUPPORT; DECISION SUPPORTS; DISCRIMINANT MODELS; ENDANGERED SPECIES; ERROR RANGE; EVALUATION OF FOREST NATURALNESS; FOREST AREA; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; FOREST PROTECTED AREAS; INDICATORS AND MODELS OF FOREST NATURALNESS; NATURAL FOREST ECOSYSTEMS; SLOVAKIA; SPRUCE FOREST; TREE DIAMETER; TREE HEIGHT;

CONSERVATION; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; ECOSYSTEMS; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FORESTRY;

DECISION MAKING;

BIOINDICATOR; DECISION MAKING; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; ECOSYSTEM MANAGEMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL RESTORATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; FOREST MANAGEMENT; NATURE CONSERVATION; PROTECTED AREA;

ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FOREST MANAGEMENT; SLOVAKIA; STATISTICAL MODEL;

BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; DECISION SUPPORT TECHNIQUES; ECOSYSTEM; FORESTRY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; TREES; WILDERNESS;

CONSERVATION; DECISION MAKING; ECOSYSTEMS; FOREST MANAGEMENT; FORESTRY;

CARPATHIANS; SLOVAKIA; WESTERN CARPATHIANS;

BRYOPHYTA; PICEA; POACEAE;

EID: 79151473971     PISSN: 0364152X     EISSN: 14321009     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00267-010-9506-2     Document Type: Article

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