National Forest Inventories: Contributions to Forest Biodiversity Assessments

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Chirici, Gherardo (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Winter, Susanne (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), McRoberts, Ronald E. (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2011.
• Σειρά: Managing Forest Ecosystems, 20
• Θέματα: Life sciences.; Biodiversity.; Forestry.; Life Sciences.; Environmental Monitoring/Analysis.

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...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 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.