Restoring the Adaptive Capacity of Forest Ecosystems

Journal of Sustainable Forestry

Volumn 33, Issue SUP1, 2014, Pages

  Puettmann, Klaus J ^a  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

adoptation; complex adaptive systems; cross scale hierarchies; uncertainty

Indexed keywords

REFORESTATION; RESTORATION;

ADOPTATION; COMPLEX ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS; CROSS-SCALE HIERARCHIES; ECOSYSTEM ECOLOGIES; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTIONS; NATURAL REGENERATION; RESTORATION TREATMENTS; UNCERTAINTY;

ECOSYSTEMS;

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; ECOSYSTEM MANAGEMENT; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 84899709328     PISSN: 10549811     EISSN: 1540756X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10549811.2014.884000     Document Type: Article

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