Climate change versus land-use change—What affects the mountain landscapes more?

Land Use Policy

Volumn 60, Issue , 2017, Pages 60-72

  Tasser, Erich ^a   Leitinger, Georg ^a,b   Tappeiner, Ulrike ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE FOR RENEWABLE ENERGY   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

Author keywords

Landscape modelling; LULC changes; Reforestation time; Scenarios; Shift in tree lines; Spatially explicit allocation model

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; LAND COVER; LAND USE CHANGE; MOUNTAIN ENVIRONMENT; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; TREELINE;

ALPS; AUSTRIA; CENTRAL ALPS; STUBAI VALLEY; TYROL;

EID: 84994048953     PISSN: 02648377     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2016.10.019     Document Type: Article

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