Assessing impacts of climatic change on forests in the Alps

Global Ecology and Biogeography Letters

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 19-37

  Fischlin, Andreas ^a   Gyalistras, Dimitrios ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Alps; Climate change impacts; Mountain forests; Patch models; Statistical downscaling

Indexed keywords

ALPINE FOREST; CARBON DIOXIDE ENRICHMENT; CLIMATIC CHANGE;

EUROPE, ALPS;

EID: 0031444940     PISSN: 09607447     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2997524     Document Type: Article

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