The phrase "affected forest" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a forest that has been impacted or altered by external factors, such as environmental changes, human activities, or natural disasters.
Example: "The affected forest showed signs of recovery after the wildfire, with new growth emerging among the charred trees."
Alternatives: "impacted forest" or "damaged forest".
In 2009, the ministry of forests and environment (MoFE) made the consent of affected forest communities mandatory for all projects that would destroy forests.
We evaluated how road density, land use, and topography affected forest fragmentation, deforestation and forest regrowth in a Brazilian Atlantic Forest region near the city of São Paulo.
In the ensuing years, the affected forest at Quehanna, though younger and smaller than the surrounding woods, has partly recovered.
The affected forest had been left threadbare by the cull while an adjacent ELC was just empty hectares of khaki-coloured dust.
In recent decades, forest disturbance by insects has increasingly affected forest communities in North America.
Poaching has particularly affected forest elephants.
Last month, the government announced yet another decree to protect the affected forests of the northeast.
The most affected forests are located in areas that are most favorable for crops.
Based on an increased understanding of how fire and other natural disturbances invariably leave patches of intact or partially affected forests in affected landscapes, this approach emphasizes the importance of residual structures and organisms (legacies), such as undisturbed vegetation patches, trees, and dead wood left behind after harvesting.
However, as most affected forests, and their natural food sources, are being completely replaced by agricultural land uses, especially oil palm plantations, this study answers many basic but fundamentally important questions that were hitherto unknown.
Mapping post-fire burn severity in a disease-affected forest often faces challenges because burned and infested trees may exhibit a high similarity in spectral reflectance.
