Management Strategies to Adapt Alpine Space Forests to Climate Change Risks

• Other Authors: Ann Cerbu, Gillian (Editor), Hanewinkel, Marc (Editor), Gerosa, Giacomo (Editor), Jandl, Robert (Editor)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: IntechOpen 2013
• Subjects: Climate change
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Climate scenarios suggest that current forest stands will face radically different temperature and precipitation conditions in the future. Developing future strategies for forest management in the face of uncertain and highly variable forecasts of future site conditions is a great challenge. Here we...