Modelling the impact of climate change on the productivity and water-use efficiency of a central European beech forest

Climate Research

Volumn 58, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 81-95

  Rötzer, Thomas ^a   Liao, Yan ^a   Goergen, Klaus ^b,d   Schüler, Gebhard ^c   Pretzsch, Hans ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b Public Research Centre   (Luxembourg)

^c Res Inst for Forest Ecol and Forest Rhineland Palatinate International Projects and Networking   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Ensemble data set; Forest growth; Forest productivity; Impacts; Regional climate change; Regional modelling; Water use efficiency

Indexed keywords

DATA SET; FOREST GROWTH; FOREST PRODUCTIVITY; IMPACTS; REGIONAL CLIMATE CHANGES; REGIONAL MODELLING; WATER USE EFFICIENCY;

ECOSYSTEMS; EFFICIENCY; FORESTRY; PRODUCTIVITY;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

BIOMASS; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; DATA SET; DROUGHT STRESS; FOREST; FOREST INVENTORY; GROWTH RATE; MORTALITY; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SIMULATION; WATER AVAILABILITY;

GERMANY;

EID: 84889824936     PISSN: 0936577X     EISSN: 16161572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/cr01179     Document Type: Article

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