Towards the harmonization between National Forest Inventory and Forest Condition Monitoring. Consistency of plot allocation and effect of tree selection methods on sample statistics in Italy

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 185, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 6155-6171

  Gasparini, Patrizia ^a   Di Cosmo, Lucio ^a   Cenni, Enrico ^c   Pompei, Enrico ^b   Ferretti, Marco ^d  

^a ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DELLA NUTRIZIONE   (Italy)

^b Ministry for Agr/Forestry Policy   (Italy)

^c Linnæambiente Ricerca Applicata S r l   (Italy)

^d TerraData Environmetrics   (Italy)

Author keywords

Forest condition monitoring; Forest inventory; Italy; Plot allocation; Sample statistics; Tree selection methods

Indexed keywords

FOREST INVENTORY; ITALY; PLOT ALLOCATION; SAMPLE STATISTICS; TREE SELECTION;

CONDITION MONITORING;

FORESTRY;

BROAD-LEAVED FOREST; DECIDUOUS TREE; DEFOLIATION; FOREST INVENTORY; SAMPLING; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BEECH; CONIFER; DEFOLIATION; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL PARAMETERS; FOREST CONDITION MONITORING; FOREST DYNAMICS; FOREST MANAGEMENT; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; ITALY; NATIONAL FOREST INVENTORY; NORWAY SPRUCE; OAK; PINE; SPECIES COMPOSITION; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TREE; TREE SELECTION METHOD;

CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FORESTRY; ITALY; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; TREES;

FORESTRY; INVENTORIES; ITALY; STATISTICS;

ITALY;

CARPINUS; CONIFEROPHYTA; FAGUS; LARIX; OSTRYA VIRGINIANA; PICEA ABIES; PINUS CEMBROIDES; QUERCUS; QUERCUS SUBER;

EID: 84878714833     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: 15732959     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10661-012-3014-1     Document Type: Article

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