Natural disturbances play a key role in ecosystem dynamics and are important factors for
sustainable forest ecosystem management. Quantitative models are frequently employed to …

This paper is a comprehensive review of spatial forest-planning initiative that has been
carried out in forest-management planning over the last 2 decades. It describes, first of all …

Increasingly, land managers seek ways to manage forests for multiple ecosystem services
and functions, yet considerable challenges exist in comparing disparate services and …

High spatial resolution remotely sensed data has the potential to complement existing forest
health programs for both strategic planning over large areas, as well as for detailed and …

There have been many different approaches to the delineation and measurement of
viewsheds using GIS. However, the quantification of visibility for each element within the …

The adoption of agro-ecological practices in agricultural systems worldwide can contribute
to increased food production without compromising future food security, especially under the …

The levels-of-integration concept in ecology suggests that while the population and
community levels of biological organization provide understanding, they do not provide an …

The last half‐century has been an era of historically unprecedented expansion in British
forests, which now cover over 12% of the land surface. In the immediate post‐War period …

Summary 1 Effective decision‐making in environmental management requires the
consideration of multiple objectives that may conflict. Common optimization methods use …

Most commonly, sustainability indicator sets presented as lists do not take into account
interactions among indicators in a systematic manner. Vice versa, existing environmental …