Modeling Italian forests: State of the art and future challenges

IForest

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 113-120

  Vacchiano, Giorgio ^a   Magnani, Federico ^b   Collalti, Alessio ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^c CENTRO EURO MEDITERRANEO SUI CAMBIAMENTI CLIMATICI   (Italy)

Author keywords

Carbon Balance; Ecological Modeling; Forest Inventory; Forest Models; SISEF

Indexed keywords

EID: 84863913996     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19717458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3832/ifor0614-005     Document Type: Review

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