Sensitivity of ecosystem goods and services projections of a forest landscape model to initialization data

Landscape Ecology

Volumn 28, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 1337-1352

  Temperli, Christian ^a   Zell, Jürgen ^b   Bugmann, Harald ^a   Elkin, Ché ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Climate change; Forest inventory; Landscape model; Model initialization; Simulation; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; AGE STRUCTURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONIFEROUS TREE; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL INDICATOR; FOREST DYNAMICS; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; FOREST INVENTORY; FOREST MANAGEMENT; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; MORTALITY; PREDICTION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; VALUATION;

BADEN-WURTTEMBERG; BLACK FOREST; GERMANY;

PICEA; PICEA ABIES;

EID: 84880749224     PISSN: 09212973     EISSN: 15729761     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10980-013-9882-0     Document Type: Article

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