The impact of climate change and its uncertainty on carbon storage in Switzerland

Regional Environmental Change

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 1437-1450

  Manusch, Corina ^a   Bugmann, Harald ^a   Wolf, Annett ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Biomass; Carbon; Climate change; Dynamic vegetation models; LPJ GUESS

Indexed keywords

EID: 84904681525     PISSN: 14363798     EISSN: 1436378X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10113-014-0586-z     Document Type: Article

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