A forest typology for monitoring sustainable forest management: The case of European Forest Types

Plant Biosystems

Volumn 141, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 93-103

  Barbati, A ^a   Corona, P ^a   Marchetti, M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TUSCIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MOLISE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Forest types; Forest vegetation classification; Reporting; Sustainable forest management indicators

Indexed keywords

EID: 33847337037     PISSN: 11263504     EISSN: 17245575     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/11263500601153842     Document Type: Article

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