Economic trade-offs of managing forests for timber production and vegetative diversity

摘要: Three indices of forest stand structural and compositional diversity were incorporated into a linear programming timber harvest scheduling model to examine the trade-offs between managing stands for production biodiversity objectives. The indices, based on Shannon's index, characterized species diversity, basal area vertical crown diversity. While harvest-level objectives often compatible with maintenance vegetative maximization present net value was accompanied by substantial reductions in all three measures