Eliciting expert knowledge to inform landscape modeling of conservation scenarios

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 229, Issue , 2012, Pages 76-87

  Price, Jessica ^a   Silbernagel, Janet ^a   Miller, Nicholas ^b   Swaty, Randy ^b   White, Mark ^b   Nixon, Kristina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b THE NATURE CONSERVANCY   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Conservation effectiveness; Ecosystem services; Landscape change; Scenario analysis; Spatial narratives

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE PROJECTIONS; COLLABORATIVE TOOLS; CONSERVATION PROJECTS; CONSERVATION STRATEGIES; DECISION MAKERS; DEVELOPING STRATEGY; ECOLOGICAL TARGETS; ECOSYSTEM SERVICES; ELSEVIER; EXPERT KNOWLEDGE; FOREST CONSERVATION; GREAT LAKES; KEYPOINTS; KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER; LAND MANAGEMENTS; LANDSCAPE CHANGES; LANDSCAPE MODELING; LANDSCAPE SCALE; LANDSCAPE SIMULATION; MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES; MODELING APPROACH; NATURE CONSERVANCY; POTENTIAL OUTCOMES; SCENARIO ANALYSIS; SCENARIO BUILDING; SOCIO-ECONOMIC BENEFITS; SOFTWARE SUITE; SPATIAL NARRATIVES; SPATIALLY EXPLICIT; TIMBER HARVESTS;

BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONSERVATION; ECONOMICS; FORESTRY; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; LAKES;

HISTORIC PRESERVATION;

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; DECISION MAKING; ECOSYSTEM RESILIENCE; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; EXPERT SYSTEM; HABITAT CONSERVATION; LAND MANAGEMENT; LANDSCAPE CHANGE; RECREATIONAL ACTIVITY; SOCIOECONOMIC IMPACT; SOFTWARE; SUSTAINABLE FORESTRY; TIMBER HARVESTING; YIELD RESPONSE;

BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION; ECOSYSTEMS; FORESTRY; HISTORY; LAKES; LAND USE; SEASONAL VARIATION;

GREAT LAKES [NORTH AMERICA];

EID: 84857455637     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2011.09.010     Document Type: Article

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