A walk on the wild side: Disturbance dynamics and the conservation and management of European mountain forest ecosystems

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 388, Issue , 2017, Pages 120-131

  Kulakowski, Dominik ^a,b   Seidl, Rupert ^c   Holeksa, Jan ^d   Kuuluvainen, Timo ^e   Nagel, Thomas A ^f   Panayotov, Momchil ^g   Svoboda, Miroslav ^h   Thorn, Simon ⁱ   Vacchiano, Giorgio ^j   Whitlock, Cathy ^k   Wohlgemuth, Thomas ^l   Bebi, Peter ^b  

^a CLARK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WSL INSTITUTE FOR SNOW AND AVALANCHE RESEARCH SLF   (Switzerland)

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

^d ADAM MICKIEWICZ UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^f UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^g UNIVERSITY OF FORESTRY   (Bulgaria)

^h CZECH UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES PRAGUE   (Czech Republic)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^j UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^k MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^l SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

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Author keywords

Disturbance regimes; Range of variability; Resilience; Socioecological systems; Temperate forests; Wilderness

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; CLIMATE CHANGE; DYNAMICS; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEMS; LAND USE; LANDFORMS;

DISTURBANCE REGIME; RANGE OF VARIABILITY; RESILIENCE; SOCIO-ECOLOGICAL SYSTEMS; TEMPERATE FORESTS; WILDERNESS;

FORESTRY;

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; ECOSYSTEM DYNAMICS; ECOSYSTEM RESILIENCE; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; EPISODIC EVENT; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; FOREST MANAGEMENT; HETEROGENEITY; LAND USE; MONTANE FOREST; MOUNTAIN REGION; PROTECTED AREA; TEMPERATE FOREST; WILDERNESS AREA;

ECOSYSTEMS; FORESTS; RESILIENCE;

EUROPE;

HEXAPODA;

EID: 85015670203     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2016.07.037     Document Type: Article

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