The results of this study support five forest land-use planning strategies that may assist planners in increasing actual and perceived representation of forest recreationists.
We analysed how the Swiss National Forest Inventory partitions the continuous landscape resources into discrete forest/non-forest classes of the Swiss Jura mountain range and how such a binary classification affects the representation of forest resources in space.
The k = 5 maps were better than k = 1 maps for local-scale accuracy, but at the cost of reduced ACSYS, and loss of variability and poor areal representation of forest conditions over the study region.
Over decades, simple directional or "linear" deterministic representation of forest dynamics, starting from 'bare ground' and ending in static "climax" forest, has been the de facto conceptual model of boreal forest dynamics (Fig. 1; Payette 1992; Johnson 1996).
The foundation for the expanded model was established through the creation of a dynamic linkage between the detailed representation of forest biomass growth and structure in FORECAST with the hydrological processes represented in ForWaDy (Seely et al. 2015).
The framework that we have described is a pragmatic representation of forest degradation that uses ensemble statistics to mitigate the poor precision of current SAR biomass estimates [13, 17, 20].
The framework that we have described is a pragmatic representation of forest degradation that uses ensemble statistics to mitigate the poor precision of current SAR biomass estimates [ 13, 17, 20].
This makes it necessary to abandon the simple directional models, and the conventional dichotomic 'large cycle - small cycle' conceptions, and to develop novel and more realistic conceptual representations of natural forest dynamics.
We examined the difference between avian richness and abundance within tree fall gaps and closed canopy forest areas in Kheyrud forest, located on the east of Noshahr Township, Mazandaran province in Iran as a representation of Hyrcanian forest.
The Terra MODIS Vegetation Continuous Fields (VCF) product is a sub-pixel-level representation of surface forest cover estimates globally36.
