Managing tree plantations as complex adaptive systems

Managing Forests as Complex Adaptive Systems: Building Resilience to the Challenge of Global Change

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 299-326

  Paquette, Alain ^a   Messier, Christian ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC EN OUTAOUAIS   (Canada)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203122808     Document Type: Chapter

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