Climate change amplifies the interactions between wind and bark beetle disturbances in forest landscapes

Landscape Ecology

Volumn 32, Issue 7, 2017, Pages 1485-1498

  Seidl, Rupert ^a   Rammer, Werner ^a  

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

Author keywords

Climate change impacts; Disturbance modeling; Forest disturbance interactions; Ips typographus; Picea abies; Windthrow

Indexed keywords

BEETLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; GLOBAL WARMING; MONTANE FOREST; PATCH SIZE; PEST OUTBREAK; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

AUSTRIA;

IPS TYPOGRAPHUS; PICEA ABIES; SCOLYTINAE;

EID: 84969821558     PISSN: 09212973     EISSN: 15729761     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10980-016-0396-4     Document Type: Article

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