A spatial and temporal drought risk assessment of three major tree species in Britain using probabilistic climate change projections

Climatic Change

Volumn 124, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 791-803

  Petr, Michal ^a,b   Boerboom, Luc G J ^a   van der Veen, Anne ^a   Ray, Duncan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^b FOREST RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; DROUGHT; RISK ASSESSMENT;

CLIMATE CHANGE PROJECTIONS; CLIMATE PROJECTION; ENVIRONMENTAL SECTOR; FOREST PRODUCTION; IPCC EMISSIONS SCENARIOS; POTENTIAL PRODUCTION; PROBABILISTIC CLIMATE PROJECTIONS; WEATHER GENERATOR;

FORESTRY;

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONIFEROUS TREE; DROUGHT STRESS; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; FORESTRY PRODUCTION; GROWTH RATE; NUMERICAL MODEL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; VULNERABILITY;

DROUGHT; FORESTRY; RISK ASSESSMENT;

UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 84902163271     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-014-1122-3     Document Type: Article

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