The Need for Harmonized Estimates of Forest Biodiversity Indicators

摘要: Forest biodiversity is crucial to the ecological, economic, and social well-being of earth’s civilisations. Unfortunately, however, forest threatened a serious degree in nearly all countries. Therefore, many countries have agreed be parties international agreements focused on maintaining, restoring, monitoring biodiversity; further, these report bodies status trends biodiversity. NFIs are primary source large-scale information available for this purpose, but large variety definitions, protocols, sampling designs, plot configurations used by makes comparable reporting extremely difficult. COST Action E43 was initiated address problem developing harmonization techniques that facilitate common reporting. Harmonization typically consists two components: development reference definitions bridging estimation according using data collected national definitions. Working Group 3 has its efforts issues related The chapters sections follow document detail.