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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"management prescriptions"”.
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Exploring the Structure and Development of Management Prescriptions for Public Lands
Management prescriptions that describe desired conditions for resources and visitor experiences have become widely accepted as an important component of public land management plans. However, very little effort is spent on evaluating and learning about this part of the planning process. This …
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Development of an inventory system for non-timber functions of forests in the frame of management inventories: the case of Greece
… non-timber functions of forests in the frame of management inventories is the main objective of the thesis. Two systems of factors that can comprehensively describe forest ecosystems and their functions have been developed. The system of external factors comprises the major ecosystem components …
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Prescribing optimal harvests in forests containing even-aged and uneven-aged stands
Research in optimizing forest management has focused on single-stand problems to derive optimal harvest sequences in terms of residual basal area or residual stand structure for uneven-aged stands, and timing of pre-defined thinning treatments and clearcut harvests for even-aged stands. Recent …
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Sensitivity Analysis of the Forest Vegetation Simulator Southern Variant (FVS-Sn)for Southern Appalachian Hardwoods
… growth and yield for different forest types and management prescriptions, but it is a relatively new, complex, and untested model. These limitations notwithstanding, FVS-Sn once tested and validated could meet the critical need of a comprehensive growth and yield model for the mixed hardwood …
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Using genetic tools to understand the population ecology of stream fishes
… to populations of P. rex, straightforward management prescriptions emerged. The framework also may prove useful for other fragmented species. Unlike P. rex, E. rufilineatum and E. blennioides are relatively abundant where they occur. However, both species were strongly affected by …
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Enhancing the benefits to biodiversity and ecosystem services within arable field margins
… a range of additional local and landscape management prescriptions further enhanced the multifunctionality of arable field margins, such as the level of vehicle traffic margins receive, vegetation height, landscape complexity and the amount of floral resources provided by the adjacent …
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Potential for the restoration of lowland and wet grassland upon ex-arable land
… enabled deintensification of agricultural land management and active promotion of habitat types of conservation value within the farmed landscape. One such habitat, lowland wet grassland, is represented within several Environmentally Sensitive Areas (ESAs), including the Upper Thames Tributaries …
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The water framework directive, paradigm shift or unrealized promises? A critical evaluation of its implementation from a boundary, economic and socio-political perspective
… as the pre-eminent geographical scale for water management, it also explicitly recognized that any policy aiming at protecting European waters necessarily had to deal with the policies that guided activities in the surrounding watershed. The discussion and approval of the WFD coincided with a …