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Simulating post-glacial vegetation development of forest ecosystems in the Eastern Alps. Evaluation of a forest succession model.
- Project Leader
- Lexer Manfred Josef, Project Leader
- Duration:
- 01.11.1998-31.01.2002
- Type of Research
- Basic Research
- Project partners
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Drescher Ruth, Graz, Austria.
Contact person: Dr. Drescher Ruth;
Function of the Project Partner: Partner
- BOKU Research Units
- Institute of Meteorology and Climatology
- Institute of Silviculture
- Funded by
- Fonds zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung (FWF) , Sensengasse 1, 1090 Wien, Austria
- Abstract
- For a watershed in the eastern Alps the postglacial vegetation development is reconstructed from a Holocene pollen profile and locally derived R-values. Holocene time series of climate data are reconstructed from proxy data and longterm measurements of temperature and precipitation. A 3D-succession model is implemented at pixel-basis of a GIS and spatially explicit vegetation development for the Holocene is simulated. Model reliability is analysed by comparison of simulated and reconstructed vegetation data.
- Keywords
- computer-aided simulation; geobotany; ecological system research; palaeobotany; climatology; computer-aided simulation; silviculture;
- holocene; climate change; vegetation;
- Publications
- Vorträge
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Jäger, D., Lexer, M.J., Hönninger, K., Drescher, R., Scheifinger, H., Groll, N., Matulla, C. (2001): Simulation of post glacial vegetation development of forest ecosystems in the Easten Alps. Evaluation of a forest succession model..
Poster-presentation at the Young Scientists Conference on Interdisciplinary Mountain Research, 25 to 28 Sept.2001, Trafoi Stilfs/Stelvio, Italy