Modeling successional patterns of high-elevation forests under changing herbivore pressure - Responses at the landscape level

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 120, Issue 1-3, 1999, Pages 35-46

  Kienast, F ^a   Fritschi, J ^b   Bissegger, M ^a   Abderhalden, W ^c  

^a SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

^b Kantonsforstant St Gallen ^*  (Switzerland)

^c ARINAS   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Browsing intensity; Capreolus; Cervus; Grazing; Herbivores; Modeling; Mountain forests; Rupicapra; Simulation; Succession; Ungulates

Indexed keywords

FOREST ECOSYSTEM; GRAZING PRESSURE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SUCCESSION;

EUROPE;

EID: 0033549621     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1127(98)00541-6     Document Type: Conference Paper

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