Drivers of the bark beetle disturbance regime in Alpine forests in Austria

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 318, Issue , 2014, Pages 349-358

  Pasztor, Ferenc ^a   Matulla, Christoph ^b   Rammer, Werner ^a   Lexer, Manfred J ^a  

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

^b ZAMG Zentralanstalt fuer Meteorologie und Geodynamik   (Austria)

Author keywords

Bark beetles; Central Europe; Climate change; Disturbance regime; Forest management; Stand scale

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894230352     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2014.01.044     Document Type: Article

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