Adapting Douglas-fir forestry in Central Europe: evaluation, application, and uncertainty analysis of a genetically based model

European Journal of Forest Research

Volumn 135, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 919-936

  Chakraborty, Debojyoti ^a,e   Wang, Tongli ^b   Andre, Konrad ^c   Konnert, Monika ^d   Lexer, Manfred J ^e   Matulla, Christoph ^c   Weißenbacher, Lambert ^a   Schueler, Silvio ^a  

^a FEDERAL RESEARCH AND TRAINING CENTRE FOR FORESTS   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c ZAMG Zentralanstalt fuer Meteorologie und Geodynamik   (Austria)

^d Bavarian Office for Forest Seeding and Planting   (Germany)

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

Author keywords

Climate change; Douglas fir; Provenance trials; Seed origin; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONIFEROUS TREE; DROUGHT; FOREST MANAGEMENT; FORESTRY POLICY; POLICY MAKING; POPULATION GENETICS; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

AUSTRIA; GERMANY; WESTERN EUROPE;

PSEUDOTSUGA; PSEUDOTSUGA MENZIESII;

EID: 84982106655     PISSN: 16124669     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10342-016-0984-5     Document Type: Article

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