A framework for habitat monitoring and climate change modelling: construction and validation of the Environmental Stratification of Estonia

Regional Environmental Change

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2017, Pages 335-349

  Villoslada, Miguel ^a   Bunce, Robert G H ^a   Sepp, Kalev ^a   Jongman, Rob H G ^b   Metzger, Marc J ^c   Kull, Tiiu ^a   Raet, Janar ^a   Kuusemets, Valdo ^a   Kull, Ain ^d   Leito, Aivar ^a  

^a ESTONIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Estonia)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

Author keywords

Climate; Clustering algorithm; Geomorphology; Monitoring; Stratified random sampling

Indexed keywords

EID: 84977160651     PISSN: 14363798     EISSN: 1436378X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10113-016-1002-7     Document Type: Article

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