Resilience of stocking capacity to changing climate in arid to Mediterranean landscapes

Regional Environmental Change

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 73-87

  Köchy, Martin ^a   Mathaj, Martin ^a   Jeltsch, Florian ^a   Malkinson, Dan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

Author keywords

Climate change; Middle East; Spatially explicit model; Stocking capacity; Topography

Indexed keywords

CAPRA HIRCUS; OVIS ARIES;

EID: 44949140408     PISSN: 14363798     EISSN: 1436378X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10113-008-0048-6     Document Type: Article

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