Review of permanent plots for long-term monitoring of New Zealand's indigenous forests

Science for Conservation

Volumn , Issue 151, 2000, Pages 1-75

  Bellingham, P ^a   Wiser, S ^a   Coomes, D ^a   Dunningham, A ^a  

^a LANDCARE RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Catchment scale sampling; Forest health; Indigenous forest; International reporting requirements; Long term ecological research; Monitoring; National forest inventory; National vegetation survey database; Spatially extensive sampling; Unstratified

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION PLANNING; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; FOREST INVENTORY;

NEW ZEALAND;

EID: 0033811786     PISSN: 11732946     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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