Simulating wind disturbance impacts on forest landscapes: Tree-level heterogeneity matters

Environmental Modelling and Software

Volumn 51, Issue , 2014, Pages 1-11

  Seidl, Rupert ^a   Rammer, Werner ^a   Blennow, Kristina ^b  

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

^b SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Ecosystem heterogeneity; Forest disturbance; ILand; Landscape modeling; Wind model; Windthrow

Indexed keywords

FOREST DISTURBANCES; ILAND; LANDSCAPE MODEL; WIND MODELING; WINDTHROWS;

CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECOSYSTEMS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOIL MECHANICS; STORMS;

FORESTRY;

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEM MANAGEMENT; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL MODELING; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; GAP DYNAMICS; HETEROGENEITY; LANDSCAPE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PATCH SIZE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SATELLITE DATA; STORM DAMAGE; WIND VELOCITY; WINDTHROW;

ECOSYSTEMS; FORESTRY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SIMULATION;

SWEDEN;

EID: 84885908030     PISSN: 13648152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2013.09.018     Document Type: Article

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