Addressing biodiversity in a stakeholder-driven climate change vulnerability assessment of forest management

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 258, Issue SUPPL., 2009, Pages

  Lexer, Manfred J ^a   Seidl, Rupert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

Author keywords

Biodiversity conservation; Climatic change; Multi criteria analysis; PICUS; Sustainable forest management; Vulnerability surface

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION; CLIMATIC CHANGES; MULTI CRITERIA ANALYSIS; PICUS; SUSTAINABLE FOREST MANAGEMENT;

BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; FORESTRY; LAND USE; PLANNING;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; DISTURBANCE; ECOSYSTEM MODELING; FOREST MANAGEMENT; MONTANE FOREST; MULTICRITERIA ANALYSIS; PROTECTED AREA; STAKEHOLDER; SUSTAINABILITY; VULNERABILITY;

BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATES; CONSERVATION; FOREST MANAGEMENT; FORESTRY; LAND USE; PLANNING;

AUSTRIA; CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE;

EID: 71649097285     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2009.07.011     Document Type: Article

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