Vulnerability of dynamic genetic conservation units of forest trees in Europe to climate change

Global Change Biology

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 1498-1511

  Schueler, Silvio ^a   Falk, Wolfgang ^b   Koskela, Jarkko ^c   Lefèvre, François ^d   Bozzano, Michele ^c   Hubert, Jason ^e   Kraigher, Hojka ^f   Longauer, Roman ^g   Olrik, Ditte C ^h  

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

^b Bavarian State Institute of Forestry   (Germany)

^c BIOVERSITY INTERNATIONAL   (Italy)

^d French National Institute for Agriculture   (France)

^e FOREST RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^f SLOVENIAN FORESTRY INSTITUTE   (Slovenia)

^g NATIONAL FOREST CENTRE   (Slovakia)

^h Section for Nature Conservation   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Climate niche modelling; Favourability function; Forest genetic resources; Gap analysis; Genetic conservation unit; Velocity of climate change

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE MODELING; CONIFEROUS FOREST; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FOREST MANAGEMENT; GENETIC RESOURCE; RISK ASSESSMENT; VULNERABILITY;

EUROPE;

CONIFERALES;

BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; EUROPE; FOREST; GENETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TREE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; EUROPE; FORESTS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TREES;

EID: 84898415226     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/gcb.12476     Document Type: Article

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