A national level forest resource assessment for Burkina Faso - A field based forest inventory in a semiarid environment combining small sample size with large observation plots

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 262, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1532-1540

  Fischer, Christoph ^a   Kleinn, Christoph ^a   Fehrmann, Lutz ^a   Fuchs, Hans ^a   Panferov, Oleg ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Burkina Faso; Carbon stocks; Forest inventory; Land cover; Sampling method

Indexed keywords

BURKINA FASO; CARBON STOCKS; FOREST INVENTORY; LAND COVER; SAMPLING METHOD;

COST ACCOUNTING; ERRORS; ESTIMATION; FORESTRY; LANDFORMS; NATURAL RESOURCES; PLANT EXTRACTS; TROPICS; VOLTAGE MEASUREMENT;

TEACHING;

BIOMASS; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; DRY FOREST; FOOD AND AGRICULTURAL ORGANIZATION; FOREST INVENTORY; FOREST RESOURCE; LAND CLASSIFICATION; LAND COVER; RESOURCE ASSESSMENT; SAMPLING; SEMIARID REGION; SHRUB;

ACCOUNTING; AFRICA; CARBON; ERRORS; ESTIMATION; EXTRACTIVES; FORESTRY; LAND; NATURAL RESOURCES; PLANTS; SAMPLING; TROPICS; UPPER VOLTA;

BURKINA FASO;

PENTADESMA BUTYRACEA; VITELLARIA PARADOXA;

EID: 80051811464     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2011.07.001     Document Type: Article

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