'sparse forest' is a correct and usable term in written English.
You can use it to describe a forest with a low concentration of trees, usually due to its dry and/or cold environment. For example: "The land was mostly barren, except for a few solitary trees dotting the landscape and a sparse forest in the far distance."
In the gloom of nature, a man with a hunting rifle was walking through sparse forest.
By Andrei Platonov In the gloom of nature, a man with a hunting rifle was walking through sparse forest.
The house now sits above a lush meadow with sparse forest that slowly gives way to deep forest.
They writhe around, forming exquisite and irregular shapes with their lithe bodies, dancing as brightly as Puck in a sparse forest filled with mirrors.
Productive forest types occupy warmer, south-facing slopes and river terraces, and less productive dwarf or sparse forest occupies the north-facing and basin permafrost sites.
Hong Kong is similarly poorly endowed in other natural resources: no commercial timber is produced from its sparse forest cover, and there is no hydroelectric potential from the small and short streams.
Nauru's interior has been mined all but dry, its sparse forests reduced to a field of blindingly white coral pillars.
Despite deploying thousands of soldiers and declaring a permanent state of emergency in the region, the government has failed to bring to heel the tiny group, which operates in a few hundred square kilometres of sparse forests and ever-expanding farming estates.
For the latest phase, an open landscape was identified, although high arboreal values point to locally extended sparse forests.
Accuracy was lower in sparse forests and savannahs, i.e., where tree cover was at or near the 30% threshold used to discriminate forest from non-forest cover.
Results show that the wet bulb approach is a good, and less data demanding, alternative to estimate E when the forest canopy is fully ventilated (very sparse forests with a narrow canopy depth).
