Adapting forest health assessments to changing perspectives on threats - A case example from Sweden

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 184, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 2453-2464

  Wulff, Sören ^a   Lindelöw, Åke ^a   Lundin, Lars ^a   Hansson, Per ^a   Axelsson, Anna Lena ^a   Barklund, Pia ^a   Wijk, Sture ^b   Ståhl, Göran ^a  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^b Swedish Forest Agency   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Forest damage; Forest health; Monitoring; Resin top disease; Spruce bark beetle

Indexed keywords

ASSESSMENT SYSTEM; DAMAGE EVENTS; DAMAGING AGENTS; ECOLOGICAL PROCESS; FOREST CONDITIONS; FOREST DAMAGE; FOREST HEALTH; FOREST HEALTH ASSESSMENT; HEALTH ASSESSMENTS; INTEGRATED MONITORING; KNOWLEDGE BASE; MITIGATION MEASURES; MONITORING PROGRAMS; NATIONAL FOREST INVENTORIES; OPERATIONAL DECISION MAKING; SPRUCE BARK BEETLES; TARGET INFORMATION;

DECISION MAKING; HEALTH RISKS; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; MONITORING; RATING;

FORESTRY;

BEETLE; DECISION MAKING; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FOREST HEALTH; FUNGAL DISEASE; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEM; STRATEGIC ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT;

AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; BEETLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; DECISION MAKING; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM REGENERATION; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FOREST MANAGEMENT; INTEGRATED MONITORING; PREDATOR PREY INTERACTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; RUST (PLANT DISEASE); SEASONAL VARIATION; SPRUCE BARK BEETLE; STRATEGIC PLANNING; SWEDEN; TREE;

ANIMALS; BEETLES; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; DECISION MAKING; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; SWEDEN; TREES;

DECISION MAKING; FORESTRY; HEALTH; INSECTS; MONITORING; RATING; SWEDEN; SYNTHETIC POLYMERS;

SWEDEN;

PICEA; SCOLYTINAE;

EID: 84862864335     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: 15732959     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10661-011-2130-7     Document Type: Article

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