Assessing the Sensitivity of Mountain Forests to Site Degradation in the Northern Limestone Alps, Europe

Assessing the Sensitivity of Mountain Forests to Site Degradation in the Northern Limestone Alps, Europe

Because of some land-use practices (such as overstocking with wild ungulates, historical clear-cuts for mining, and locally persisting forest pasture), protective forests in the montane vegetation belt of the Northern Limestone Alps are now frequently overaged and poorly structured over large areas....

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Main Authors: Birgit Reger, Axel Göttlein, Klaus Katzensteiner, Jörg Ewald
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: International Mountain Society 2015-05-01
Series:Mountain Research and Development
Subjects:
spatial modeling
site parameters
soil
stand parameters
stand structure
sensitivity mapping
decision support
vulnerability assessment
Online Access:http://www.bioone.org/doi/full/10.1659/MRD-JOURNAL-D-14-00094.1

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