Evaluating management tradeoffs between economic fiber production and other ecosystem services in a Chinese-fir dominated forest plantation in Fujian Province

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 557-558, Issue , 2016, Pages 80-90

  Kang, Haijun ^a,b   Seely, Brad ^b   Wang, Guangyu ^a,b   Innes, John ^a,b   Zheng, Dexiang ^a   Chen, Pingliu ^a   Wang, Tongli ^b   Li, Qinglin ^c  

^a FUJIAN AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c RESEARCH BRANCH   (Canada)

Author keywords

Alternative management scenarios; Cunninghamia lanceolata; Economic value; Ecosystem services; LST; Tradeoffs

Indexed keywords

CARBON; CARBON DIOXIDE; COMMERCE; DECISION MAKING; ECOLOGY; ECONOMICS; FORESTRY; HARVESTING; NITROGEN FIXATION;

ALTERNATIVE MANAGEMENT; CUNNINGHAMIA LANCEOLATA; ECONOMIC VALUES; ECOSYSTEM SERVICES; TRADEOFFS;

ECOSYSTEMS;

CARBON; CARBON DIOXIDE; NITROGEN; OXYGEN;

CONIFEROUS TREE; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; FOREST MANAGEMENT; PLANTATION FORESTRY; SUSTAINABLE FORESTRY; TRADE-OFF;

ABSORPTION; ARTICLE; BIOCHEMICAL COMPOSITION; BIOMASS; CARBON DIOXIDE FIXATION; CARBON STORAGE; CASE STUDY; CHINA; CHINESE FIR; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; FOREST MANAGEMENT; HARVEST PERIOD; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; NONHUMAN; POLLUTANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RURAL AREA; SIMULATION; SOCIOECONOMICS; SOIL FERTILITY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

CHINA; FUJIAN;

CUNNINGHAMIA LANCEOLATA;

EID: 84960970481     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2016.03.061     Document Type: Article

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