Reduction in browsing intensity may not compensate climate change effects on tree species composition in the Bavarian Forest National Park

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 328, Issue , 2014, Pages 179-192

  Cailleret, Maxime ^a   Heurich, Marco ^b,c   Bugmann, Harald ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b BAVARIAN FOREST NATIONAL PARK   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Browsing; Climate change; Model; Productivity; Tree diversity

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DROUGHT; MODELS; POPULATION STATISTICS; PRODUCTIVITY;

BAVARIAN FOREST NATIONAL PARK; BROWSING; CLIMATIC CONDITIONS; INTER-SPECIFIC COMPETITIONS; LONG TERM SIMULATION; LONG-TERM DEVELOPMENT; TREE DIVERSITY; TREE SPECIES COMPOSITION;

REFORESTATION;

BASAL AREA; BIODIVERSITY; BROWSING; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; CONIFEROUS FOREST; DECIDUOUS FOREST; DIEBACK; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; FOREST MANAGEMENT; NATIONAL PARK; REMOVAL EXPERIMENT; STAND DYNAMICS; UNGULATE;

BAVARIA; BAVARIAN FOREST NATIONAL PARK; GERMANY;

EID: 84902510034     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2014.05.030     Document Type: Article

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