What is it about?
1. The methodological shifts from deterministic planning, typical of conventional forestry, to learning-based trial and error approaches. 2. The rising relevance of resilience thinking. 3. The need of more rigorous scientific inference. 4. The integration of forest inventory and forest mapping approaches. 5. The trend towards 3-D representations of forest ecosystems. 6. The increasing opportunity for multipurpose surveys.
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Why is it important?
Recent changes in forest management perspective have promoted the consideration of forests as complex adaptive systems, thereby highlighting the need to account that such approaches actually work: forest monitoring and assessment are then expected to address and fully incorporate this perspective at global scale, seeking to support planning and management decisions that are evidence- based.
Perspectives
A key challenge is to introduce question-driven approaches into forest ecosystem monitoring and assessment programs as a means of contingently identifying and assessing mechanisms that influence global changes
Piermaria Corona
CREA Research Centre for Forestry and Wood
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This page is a summary of: Consolidating new paradigms in large-scale monitoring and assessment of forest ecosystems, Environmental Research, January 2016, Elsevier,
DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2015.10.017.
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