Forest productivity under environmental change—A review of stand-scale modeling studies

Current Forestry Reports

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 53-68

  Reyer, Christopher ^a  

^a POTSDAM INSTITUTE FOR CLIMATE IMPACT RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Carbon dioxide; Climate change; Nitrogen; Ozone; Process basedmodels

Indexed keywords

EID: 84941630499     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21986436     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s40725-015-0009-5     Document Type: Article

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