Regional climate sensitivity of wetland environments in Rwanda: the need for a location-specific approach

Regional Environmental Change

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 1635-1647

  Nyandwi, Elias ^a,b   Veldkamp, Tom ^a   Amer, Sherif ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF RWANDA   (Rwanda)

Author keywords

Climate change; Probability model; Spatial scales; Topography; Wetland management

Indexed keywords

EID: 84950238406     PISSN: 14363798     EISSN: 1436378X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10113-015-0905-z     Document Type: Article

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