Towards a more transparent use of the potential natural vegetation concept - an answer to Chiarucci et al.

Journal of Vegetation Science

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 590-595

  Somodi, Imelda ^a   Molnár, Zsolt ^a   Ewald, Jörg ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

^b UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES WEIHENSTEPHAN TRIESDORF   (Germany)

Author keywords

Ecological baseline; Landscape comparison; Multiple probabilistic PNV; Null model; Potential future natural vegetation; Predictive modelling

Indexed keywords

BASELINE CONDITIONS; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; PHYTOSOCIOLOGY; PLANT COMMUNITY; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; VEGETATION DYNAMICS; VEGETATION TYPE;

EID: 84860188536     PISSN: 11009233     EISSN: 16541103     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1654-1103.2011.01378.x     Document Type: Article

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