Potential impacts of climate change on species richness in mountain forests - An ecological risk assessment

Biological Conservation

Volumn 83, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 291-305

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

^a SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

^b WARSAW UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Poland)

Author keywords

Conceptual model; GIS; Nature reserve areas; Spatially explicit vegetation model; Switzerland

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; MOUNTAIN FOREST; RISK ASSESSMENT; SPECIES RICHNESS; VEGETATION CHANGE;

(CENTRAL); EUROPE;

CARPINION; CARPINUS; CONIFEROPHYTA; FAGUS; QUERCUS;

EID: 0031103440     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3207(97)00085-2     Document Type: Conference Paper

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