European forest types for coppice forests in Croatia.

摘要: Coppice forests in South-Eastern Europe (SEE) cover a broad range of ecological conditions. So far approaches to structure the variety coppice were either highly aggregated or relied on very specific local regional phytocoenological classification systems which defy coherent comparison between SEE countries and at European level. To bridge this gap article presents methodological approach allocate current forest types (EFT) using readily available information. The is presented by means example Croatia, country that shares many common features with other regard biogeographical vegetation diversity forests, but also currently used methods for assessment national resources particular. In map natural (Bohn et al., 2004) combined area offices (RFO), Corine 2000 land map, distribution 12 management classes within RFOs. Within each RFO, are linked occurring EFTs. If more than one EFT could be particular class, random over eligible EFTs assumed. total 499.687 ha (93.6% area) classified, whereof 76.4% was possible high confidence, cases an approximation made based methodology appears useful rapid stratification use data region sets As soon as plot-level inventory becomes evaluation eventual improvement will possible.