Combining probabilistic land-use change and tree population dynamics modelling to simulate responses in mountain forests

Sophie Rickebusch, Mario Gellrich, Heike Lischke, Antoine Guisan and Niklaus E. Zimmermann

Ecological Modelling, 2007, vol. 209, issue 2, 157-168

Abstract: Altitudinal tree lines are mainly constrained by temperature, but can also be influenced by factors such as human activity, particularly in the European Alps, where centuries of agricultural use have affected the tree-line. Over the last decades this trend has been reversed due to changing agricultural practices and land-abandonment. We aimed to combine a statistical land-abandonment model with a forest dynamics model, to take into account the combined effects of climate and human land-use on the Alpine tree-line in Switzerland.

Keywords: Agricultural land-abandonment; Gap dynamics; Logistic regression; Reforestation; TreeMig; TreeMig-LAb; Switzerland (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2007.06.027

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