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National Forest Inventories: Contributions to Forest Biodiversity Assessments

Forest biodiversity is crucial to the ecological, economic, and social well-being of earth’s civilisations. Unfortunately, however, forest biodiversity is threatened to a serious degree in nearly all countries. Therefore, many countries have agreed to be parties to international agreements focused o...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Chirici, Gherardo (Editor), Winter, Susanne (Editor), McRoberts, Ronald E. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 2011, 2011
Edition:1st ed. 2011
Series:Managing Forest Ecosystems
Subjects:
Environmental Monitoring
Biodiversity
Forestry
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • 1. The need for harmonized estimates of forest biodiversity indicators
  • 2. Essential features of forest biodiversity for assessment purposes
  • 3. Prospects for harmonized biodiversity assessments using national forest inventory data
  • 4. The common NFI database
  • 5. Harmonization tests
  • 6. Summary and conclusions. Index

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