Managing and learning with multiple models: Objectives and optimization algorithms

Biological Conservation

Volumn 144, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1237-1245

  Probert, William J M ^a   Hauser, Cindy E ^b   McDonald Madden, Eve ^c   Runge, Michael C ^d   Baxter, Peter W J ^a,b   Possingham, Hugh P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c CSIRO   (Australia)

^d PATUXENT WILDLIFE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive management; Conservation biology; Decision theory; Optimization; Stochastic dynamic programming; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; ALGORITHM; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; DECISION MAKING; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; MANAGEMENT PRACTICE; NUMERICAL MODEL; OPTIMIZATION; POPULATION GROWTH; STOCHASTICITY; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 79952631534     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2010.07.031     Document Type: Article

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