Modeling sensitivity to climate change and estimating the uncertainty of its impact: A probabilistic concept for risk assessment in forestry

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 316, Issue , 2015, Pages 211-216

  Mellert, Karl H ^a   Deffner, Veronika ^b   Küchenhoff, Helmut ^b   Kölling, Christian ^a  

^a Bavarian State Institute of Forestry   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Climate envelope; Ensemble modeling; Fagus sylvatica; Forest management planning; Niche modeling; SDM

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELS; DECISION MAKING; FORESTRY; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; PROBABILITY; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK PERCEPTION; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

CLIMATE ENVELOPE; ENSEMBLE MODELING; FAGUS SYLVATICA; FOREST MANAGEMENT PLANNING; SDM;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

BIOCLIMATOLOGY; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; DECIDUOUS TREE; DECISION MAKING; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; FOREST MANAGEMENT; FORESTRY PRACTICE; NICHE; PROBABILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

FAGUS SYLVATICA; FOREST MANAGEMENT; FORESTRY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEASONAL VARIATION;

FAGUS SYLVATICA;

EID: 84941985609     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2015.08.014     Document Type: Article

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