Comparing the provision of ecosystem services in plantation forests under alternative climate change adaptation management options in Wales

Regional Environmental Change

Volumn 15, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 1501-1513

  Ray, Duncan ^a   Bathgate, Stephen ^a   Moseley, Darren ^a   Taylor, Philip ^a   Nicoll, Bruce ^a   Pizzirani, Stefania ^b   Gardiner, Barry ^c  

^a FOREST RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^b SCION   (New Zealand)

^c CEMAGREF   (France)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Ecosystem goods and services; FMA; Forest modelling; Forest resilience; RCM projections; UK National Ecosystem Assessment

Indexed keywords

EID: 84947035301     PISSN: 14363798     EISSN: 1436378X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10113-014-0644-6     Document Type: Article

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