Slow and fast drivers of the natural disturbance regime in Central European forest ecosystems

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 307, Issue , 2013, Pages 293-302

  Thom, Dominik ^a   Seidl, Rupert ^a   Steyrer, Gottfried ^b   Krehan, Hannes ^b   Formayer, Herbert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

^b FEDERAL RESEARCH AND TRAINING CENTRE FOR FORESTS   (Austria)

Author keywords

Bark beetle damage; Climate sensitivity; Disturbance interactions; Disturbance predisposition; Forest disturbance regime; Wind damage

Indexed keywords

BARK BEETLE; CLIMATE SENSITIVITY; DISTURBANCE PREDISPOSITION; FOREST DISTURBANCES; WIND DAMAGE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEMS; RISK MANAGEMENT;

FORESTRY;

BEETLE; CLIMATE EFFECT; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; FOREST MANAGEMENT; PEST DAMAGE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

DAMAGE; ECOSYSTEMS; FORESTRY; RISK MANAGEMENT; WIND;

AUSTRIA; CENTRAL EUROPE;

EID: 84881650792     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2013.07.017     Document Type: Article

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