The impacts of climate change and disturbance on spatio-temporal trajectories of biodiversity in a temperate forest landscape

Journal of Applied Ecology

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 28-38

  Thom, Dominik ^a   Rammer, Werner ^a   Dirnböck, Thomas ^b   Müller, Jörg ^c,d   Kobler, Johannes ^b   Katzensteiner, Klaus ^a   Helm, Norbert ^b   Seidl, Rupert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

^b ENVIRONMENT AGENCY AUSTRIA   (Austria)

^c BAVARIAN FOREST NATIONAL PARK   (Germany)

^d TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

biodiversity hotspots; climate change impacts; conservation management; forest ecosystem management; insect diversity; Kalkalpen National Park; landscape ecology; plant diversity

Indexed keywords

ARTHROPOD; BIODIVERSITY; BIOINDICATOR; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; ECOSYSTEM MANAGEMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; LONG-TERM CHANGE; MOLLUSC; MONTANE FOREST; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TEMPERATE FOREST; VEGETATION COVER;

AUSTRIA; KALKALPEN NATIONAL PARK; UPPER AUSTRIA;

ARANEAE; CARABIDAE; COLEOPTERA; HEMIPTERA; HEXAPODA; HYMENOPTERA; MOLLUSCA; SYMPHYTA; SYRPHIDAE;

EID: 84961687393     PISSN: 00218901     EISSN: 13652664     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1365-2664.12644     Document Type: Article

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