Evaluating the suitability of management strategies of pure Norway spruce forests in the Black Forest area of Southwest Germany for adaptation to or mitigation of climate change

Environmental Management

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 387-402

  Yousefpour, Rasoul ^a   Hanewinkel, Marc ^b   Le Moguédec, Gilles ^c  

^a Institute of Forest Economics and Management   (Germany)

^b Forest Reasearch Institute of Baden Württemberg   (Germany)

^c LERFoB   (France)

Author keywords

Adaptation; BWINPro S; Carbon sequestration; Climate change; Mitigation; Norway spruce transformation

Indexed keywords

A-CARBON; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION; FOREST AREA; FOREST CONVERSION; FOREST OWNERS; FOREST REGIONS; GERMANY; GROWING STOCKS; HA MODEL; INTEREST RATES; MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES; MULTIPLE OBJECTIVES; NET PRESENT VALUE; NORWAY SPRUCE; OPTIMAL SOLUTIONS; OPTIMIZED PLANS; PICEA ABIES; PURE STANDS; SIMULATION AND OPTIMIZATION; TIMBER PRODUCTION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FORESTRY; LINEARIZATION; OPTIMIZATION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ADAPTATION; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; FOREST MANAGEMENT; FORESTRY PRODUCTION; LAND USE CHANGE; SILVICULTURE; STAND DYNAMICS; STRATEGIC APPROACH;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ARTICLE; BEECH; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOREST MANAGEMENT; GERMANY; NORWAY SPRUCE; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; TREE GROWTH; WOOD; ADAPTATION; EVALUATION; FORESTRY; SPRUCE;

ADAPTATION; CARBON; CHELATION; CLIMATES; OPTIMIZATION; PICEA ABIES; SENSITIVITY; SIMULATION;

BADEN-WURTTEMBERG; BLACK FOREST; GERMANY; NORWAY;

FAGUS; PICEA; PICEA ABIES;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; CLIMATE CHANGE; FAGUS; FORESTRY; GERMANY; PICEA;

EID: 77951924863     PISSN: 0364152X     EISSN: 14321009     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00267-009-9409-2     Document Type: Article

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