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Critical need for new definitions of âforestâ and âforest

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While a definition of âforestâ that is globally acceptable and appropriate for monitoring using standard remote sensing options will necessarily be based on a small set of easily measured parameters, there are dangers when simple definitions are applied locally. At the very least, we recommend that natural forest be differentiated from plantations and that for defining âforestâ the lower height limit defining âtreesâ be set at more than 5 m tall with the minimum cover of trees be set at more than 40%.

CREATION DATE	January 22, 2010
LAST MODIFIED	January 22, 2010
CREATED BY	Brian Maday
AUTHOR(S)	Nophea Sasak; Francis E. Putz
KEYWORDS	Social Considerations Related to REDD
DOCUMENT PURPOSE	Publications; Reports / Analysis; Laws & Policies
PUBLICATION YEAR	No Publication Year
REVIEWED STATUS	Not Reviewed
LICENSE	Attribution Non-Commercial

Critical need for new definitions of âforestâ and âforest

Critical need for new definitions of âforestâ and âforest