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The Western Coniferous Forest Biome wasconceived as a multidisciplinary, integratedecological research program with the forestecosystem as a whole being the object of study.All research was focused on a set of commonresearch objectives. Primary objectives cen-tered around determining how productivity ofconiferous forests was related to their struc-ture and internal biological processes.
Planning and integration of the researchproject was directed by use of systems analy-sis methods. Conceptual models of forestecosystems wereideveloped and used to struc-ture and coordinate the research.
Results of ghe program are discussedwith emphasis on .,those results having poten-tial use in forest management.