Forest and climate change in the inner-alpine dry region of Visp;Wald und Klimawandel in der inneralpinen Trockenregion Visp

Schweizerische Zeitschrift fur Forstwesen

Volumn 163, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 481-492

  Rigling, Andreas ^a   Elkin, Ché ^b   Dobbertin, Matthias ^a   Eilmann, Britta ^c   Giuggiola, Arnaud ^a   Wohlgemuth, Thomas ^a   Bugmann, Harald ^b  

^a SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Climate change; Ecosystem services; Experiments; Forest management; Landscape model; Water availability

Indexed keywords

EID: 84874255364     PISSN: 00367818     EISSN: 22351469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3188/szf.2012.0481     Document Type: Article

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