Effects of flooding on the recruitment, damage and mortality of riparian tree species: A field and simulation study on the Rhine floodplain

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 255, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 3893-3903

  Kramer, Koen ^a   Vreugdenhil, Stefan J ^a   van der Werf, D C ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Flooding; Floodplain; ForGEM; Mortality; Riparian forest; Saplings; Simulation model; Stem damage; Trees; Washlands

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FORESTRY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

FLOODPLAIN; FORGEM; RIPARIAN FORESTS; SIMULATION MODELS; STEM DAMAGE; WASHLANDS;

FLOOD DAMAGE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; DAMAGE; FLOODING; FLOODPLAIN; MORTALITY; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); RIPARIAN ZONE; SURVIVORSHIP;

FLOODS; FORESTRY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SIMULATION;

EURASIA; EUROPE; RHINE RIVER;

ACER; ACER CAMPESTRE; ACER PLATANOIDES; ACER PSEUDOPLATANUS; ALNUS; ALNUS GLUTINOSA; CARPINUS BETULUS; FAGUS; FAGUS SYLVATICA; FRAXINUS; FRAXINUS EXCELSIOR; JUGLANS; JUGLANS NIGRA; MALVACEAE; POPULUS; PRUNUS; PRUNUS AVIUM; QUERCUS ROBUR; SALIX; TILIA CORDATA; ULMUS; ULMUS LAEVIS; ULMUS MINOR;

EID: 43849099553     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2008.03.044     Document Type: Article

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