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When is a forest a forest? Forest concepts and definitions in the era of forest and landscape restoration

Ambio, 2016-09, Vol.45 (5), p.538-550 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

2016 Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences ;The Author(s) 2016 ;Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences 2016 ;ISSN: 0044-7447 ;EISSN: 1654-7209 ;DOI: 10.1007/s13280-016-0772-y ;PMID: 26961011

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Title:
When is a forest a forest? Forest concepts and definitions in the era of forest and landscape restoration
Author: Chazdon, Robin L. ; Brancalion, Pedro H. S. ; Laestadius, Lars ; Bennett-Curry, Aoife ; Buckingham, Kathleen ; Kumar, Chetan ; Moll-Rocek, Julian ; Vieira, Ima Célia Guimarães ; Wilson, Sarah Jane
Subjects: Atmospheric Sciences ; Biodiversity ; Carbon Cycle ; Carbon sequestration ; Climate Change ; Deforestation ; Earth and Environmental Science ; Ecology ; Ecosystems ; Environment ; Environmental Engineering/Biotechnology ; Environmental Management ; Environmental Monitoring - methods ; Environmental restoration ; Environmental Restoration and Remediation - methods ; Forest management ; Forestry - classification ; Forestry - economics ; Forestry - organization & administration ; Forests ; Landscape ecology ; Objectives ; PERSPECTIVE ; Physical Geography ; Reforestation ; Timber ; Trees ; Trees - growth & development
Is Part Of: Ambio, 2016-09, Vol.45 (5), p.538-550
Description: We present a historical overview of forest concepts and definitions, linking these changes with distinct perspectives and management objectives. Policies dealing with a broad range of forest issues are often based on definitions created for the purpose of assessing global forest stocks, which do not distinguish between natural and planted forests or reforests, and which have not proved useful in assessing national and global rates of forest regrowth and restoration. Implementing and monitoring forest and landscape restoration requires additional approaches to defining and assessing forests that reveal the qualities and trajectories of forest patches in a spatially and temporally dynamic landscape matrix. New technologies and participatory assessment of forest states and trajectories offer the potential to operationalize such definitions. Purpose-built and contextualized definitions are needed to support policies that successfully protect, sustain, and regrow forests at national and global scales. We provide a framework to illustrate how different management objectives drive the relative importance of different aspects of forest state, dynamics, and landscape context.
Publisher: Dordrecht: Springer
Language: English
Identifier: ISSN: 0044-7447
EISSN: 1654-7209
DOI: 10.1007/s13280-016-0772-y
PMID: 26961011
Source: MEDLINE
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When is a forest a forest? Forest concepts and definitions in the era of forest and landscape restoration

2016 Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences ;The Author(s) 2016 ;Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences 2016 ;ISSN: 0044-7447 ;EISSN: 1654-7209 ;DOI: 10.1007/s13280-016-0772-y ;PMID: 26961011

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