Review of monitoring and assessing ground vegetation biodiversity in national forest inventories

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 164, Issue 1-4, 2010, Pages 649-676

  Alberdi, I ^a   Condes S ^a   Martinez Millan J ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Forest biodiversity; Ground vegetation; Ground vegetation attributes; Ground vegetation components; National forest inventory; Sampling methods; Volume calculations

Indexed keywords

FOREST BIODIVERSITY; GROUND VEGETATION; NATIONAL FOREST INVENTORIES; SAMPLING METHOD; VOLUME CALCULATION;

BIODIVERSITY; DATA ACQUISITION; FORESTRY; MONITORING;

VEGETATION;

BIODIVERSITY; BIOINDICATOR; BIOMONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; FOREST INVENTORY; FOREST MANAGEMENT; POLICY APPROACH; SAMPLING; UNDERSTORY; VEGETATION COVER;

BIODIVERSITY; BIOMASS; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FOREST; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; POLLUTION; REVIEW; SAMPLING; SEASONAL VARIATION; VEGETATION;

BIODIVERSITY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; PLANTS; TREES;

BIODIVERSITY; DATA; FORESTS; MONITORING; PLANTS;

EUROPE;

EID: 77952293581     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: 15732959     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10661-009-0919-4     Document Type: Review

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