Is Close-to-Nature Silviculture (CNS) an adequate concept to adapt forests to climate change?

Landbauforschung Volkenrode

Volumn 65, Issue 3-4, 2015, Pages 161-170

  Spathelf, Peter ^a   Bolte, Andreas ^b   Van Der Maaten, Ernst ^c  

^a Fachhochschule Eberswalde   (Germany)

^b Federal Research Institute for Rural Areas   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GREIFSWALD   (Germany)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Climate change; Close to nature silviculture (CNS); Genetic variation; Tree species richness

Indexed keywords

EID: 84964786161     PISSN: 04586859     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3220/LBF1452526188000     Document Type: Article

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