A case study of forest change in the Swiss lowlands

Landscape Ecology

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 567-576

  Bürgi, Matthias ^a,b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Driving forces; Forest history; Forest management; Human impact; Landscape history

Indexed keywords

FOREST DYNAMICS; FOREST MANAGEMENT; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; LANDSCAPE HISTORY;

SWITZERLAND;

EID: 0344562898     PISSN: 09212973     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1008168209725     Document Type: Article

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