Are habitats of Austrian agricultural landscapes sensitive to climate change?

Landscape and Urban Planning

Volumn 98, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 150-159

  Renetzeder, Christa ^a   Knoflacher, Markus ^b   Loibl, Wolfgang ^b   Wrbka, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b AIT AUSTRIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Broader habitat; Ecological envelope; Ellenberg values; Regional climate model; Upper Austria

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL ROBOTS; AGRICULTURE; BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE MODELS; CONSERVATION; ECOSYSTEMS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

BROADER HABITAT; ECOLOGICAL ENVELOPE; ELLENBERG VALUES; REGIONAL CLIMATE MODELING; UPPER AUSTRIA;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

AGRICULTURAL LAND; BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; CONSERVATION PLANNING; FALLOW; NATURE CONSERVATION; REGIONAL CLIMATE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; WATER AVAILABILITY;

AUSTRIA; UPPER AUSTRIA;

EID: 78049239871     PISSN: 01692046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.landurbplan.2010.08.022     Document Type: Article

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