Short- and long-term efficacy of forest thinning to mitigate drought impacts in mountain forests in the European Alps

Ecological Applications

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 1083-1098

  Elkin, Ché ^a,c   Giuggiola, Arnaud ^a,b   Rigling, Andreas ^b   Bugmann, Harald ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Adaptive management; Climate change; Drought; Forest model; Forest thinning; Tree mortality

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; CLIMATE CHANGE; DROUGHT; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; FOREST DYNAMICS; FORESTRY MODELING; MONTANE FOREST; THINNING;

ALPS;

LARIX; PICEA ABIES;

ALTITUDE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DROUGHT; EUROPE; FOREST; FORESTRY; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; SCOTS PINE; TIME;

ALTITUDE; DROUGHTS; EUROPE; FORESTRY; FORESTS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PINUS SYLVESTRIS; POPULATION DENSITY; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84930019193     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19395582     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/14-0690.1     Document Type: Article

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