Sensitivity of forests in the European Alps to future climatic change

Climate Research

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 35-44

  Bugmann, Harald ^a,b  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b POTSDAM INSTITUTE FOR CLIMATE IMPACT RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Climate change; European Alps; Forest gap models; Model comparison; Sensitivity analysis; Species composition

Indexed keywords

SIGMOIDEA;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATIC CHANGE; ELEVATION GRADIENT; FOREST; FOREST GAP MODEL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; VEGETATION RESPONSE;

ALPS; EUROPE;

EID: 0031422004     PISSN: 0936577X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/cr008035     Document Type: Article

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