A 2 °C warmer world is not safe for ecosystem services in the European Alps

Global Change Biology

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1827-1840

  Elkin, Ché ^a   Gutiérrez, Alvaro G ^a   Leuzinger, Sebastian ^a,b   Manusch, Corina ^a   Temperli, Christian ^a   Rasche, Livia ^a,c   Bugmann, Harald ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b AUCKLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (New Zealand)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

2 C global average temperature; Climate change; Forest ecosystem services; Intraannual climate variability; Mountain forests; Regional climate models

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL VARIATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; GLOBAL CHANGE; MONTANE FOREST; TEMPERATURE; WARMING;

ALPS;

ARTICLE; ECOSYSTEM; EUROPE; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ECOSYSTEM; EUROPE; GLOBAL WARMING; MODELS, THEORETICAL;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84877046033     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/gcb.12156     Document Type: Article

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