Managing a boreal forest landscape for providing timber, storing and sequestering carbon

Ecosystem Services

Volumn 14, Issue , 2015, Pages 179-189

  Triviño, María ^a   Juutinen, Artti ^b   Mazziotta, Adriano ^a   Miettinen, Kaisa ^a   Podkopaev, Dmitry ^a,c   Reunanen, Pasi ^a   Mönkkönen, Mikko ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

^c SYSTEMS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Poland)

Author keywords

Carbon storage and sequestration; Climate change; Ecosystem service trade offs; Finland; Forest management; Multiobjective optimization

Indexed keywords

EID: 84937978404     PISSN: 22120416     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoser.2015.02.003     Document Type: Article

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