Assessment of the effects of forest land use strategies on the provision of ecosystem services at regional scale

Journal of Environmental Management

Volumn 127, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Fürst, Christine ^b   Frank, Susanne ^a,b   Witt, Anke ^a   Koschke, Lars ^a,b   Makeschin, Franz ^a  

^a DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Afforestation; Conversion; Ecosystem services; GISCAME; Regional planning; Short rotation coppice

Indexed keywords

AFFORESTATION; COPPICE; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT; FOREST MANAGEMENT; LAND CLASSIFICATION; LAND USE; PLANNING PRACTICE;

AFFORESTATION; AGRICULTURAL LAND; ARTICLE; CASE STUDY; COPPICE; ECONOMIC ASPECT; ECOSYSTEM; FOREST MANAGEMENT; GERMANY; LAND USE; LANDSCAPE; LOESS; TOPOGRAPHY;

GERMANY; SAXONY;

AFFORESTATION; CONVERSION; ECOSYSTEM SERVICES; GISCAME; REGIONAL PLANNING; SHORT ROTATION COPPICE;

ECOSYSTEM; TREES;

EID: 84881665792     PISSN: 03014797     EISSN: 10958630     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2012.09.020     Document Type: Article

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