In addition, the ability to predict maximum forest density will enable foresters to quantify the reduction of biomass and the loss in carbon sequestration by timber harvesting.
In a novel approach, the researchers compared trends in both forest area and forest density for the 50 most-forested nations.
You can't directly infer worsening or improving biodiversity from forest density".
It is more important to observe this change in forest density".
Over the next century, forest density went from 80 trees per acre to more than 1,000.
There is no doubt the pressure applied by activists and a concerned public has contributed to the reversal in forest density decline.
Forest density is increasing across much of the world after decades of decline, according to a new study by scientists from the United States and Europe.
An evaluation of the 12-month Koudioube pilot found that, since 2012, there has been no illegal logging in the 2,000 hectare (4,940 acre) area and forest density has increased.
But what this Helsinki-Rockefeller study does demonstrate is that, with greater awareness of forest density, forests can be managed to ensure they remain fertile and absorb more carbon dioxide.
According to a German study in the Forest Policy and Economics journal in 2006, forest density has almost doubled in Western Europe over that time, primarily because of modern, intensive forest management, and the spectacular growth of major plantations.
Apart from the serious and widespread problems of water pollution – both on the surface and below the ground – erosion and degradation of soil, and loss of forest density and biodiversity, the problem of air pollution in several parts of the country is alarming.
