Scaling issues in forest ecosystem management and how to address them with models

European Journal of Forest Research

Volumn 132, Issue 5-6, 2013, Pages 653-666

  Seidl, Rupert ^a   Eastaugh, Chris S ^a,b   Kramer, Koen ^c   Maroschek, Michael ^a   Reyer, Christopher ^d,e   Socha, Jarosław ^f   Vacchiano, Giorgio ^g   Zlatanov, Tzvetan ^h   Hasenauer, Hubert ^a  

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

^b SOUTHERN CROSS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d POTSDAM INSTITUTE FOR CLIMATE IMPACT RESEARCH   (Germany)

^e HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE IN KRAKOW   (Poland)

^g UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^h FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Bulgaria)

Author keywords

Ecosystem modelling; Emergence; Multi scale approach; Scale; Scaling; Sustainable forest management

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEM MODELING; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; FOREST MANAGEMENT;

EID: 84887625224     PISSN: 16124669     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10342-013-0725-y     Document Type: Review

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