Long-term adaptation potential of Central European mountain forests to climate change: A GIS-assisted sensitivity assessment

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 80, Issue 1-3, 1996, Pages 133-153

  Kienast, Felix ^a   Brzeziecki, Bogdan ^b   Wildi, Otto ^a  

^a SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

^b WARSAW UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Poland)

Author keywords

Bayes model; Ecological risk assessment; Potential natural vegetation (PNV); Spatially explicit vegetation model

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION POTENTIAL; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATIC CHANGE; ECOLOGICAL RISK ASSESSMENT; FOREST; FOREST COMMUNITY MODEL; GIS; NATURAL VEGETATION; VEGETATION MODEL; VEGETATION POTENTIAL;

SWITZERLAND;

EID: 0029666806     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0378-1127(95)03633-4     Document Type: Article

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