2021
DOI: 10.1186/s40663-021-00315-x
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A century of national forest inventories – informing past, present and future decisions

Abstract: In 2019, 100 years had elapsed since the first National Forest Inventory (NFI) was established in Norway. Motivated by a fear of over-exploitation of timber resources, NFIs today enable informed policy making by providing data vital to decision support at international, national, regional, and local scales. This Collection of articles celebrates the 100th anniversary of NFIs with a description of past, present, and future research aiming at improving the monitoring of forest and other terrestrial ecosystems.

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“…Site-specific information, such as information derived from forest inventories or soil mapping, are commonly gathered by national institutions, but not always openly accessible for every forestry stakeholder. National forest inventories were initiated in Europe already a century ago, providing detailed information on the forest condition and other related parameters for decision support, collected through sample plots, but also remote sensing approaches, continuously improving on the fine resolution of this data [101]. In addition, soil mapping on national level has a long tradition in Europe too, and initiatives are in place to merge national attempts to a digital and thematic soil map database-yet this is a long-term process, and the resulting spatial information will only be available at a coarse resolution [102].…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Site-specific information, such as information derived from forest inventories or soil mapping, are commonly gathered by national institutions, but not always openly accessible for every forestry stakeholder. National forest inventories were initiated in Europe already a century ago, providing detailed information on the forest condition and other related parameters for decision support, collected through sample plots, but also remote sensing approaches, continuously improving on the fine resolution of this data [101]. In addition, soil mapping on national level has a long tradition in Europe too, and initiatives are in place to merge national attempts to a digital and thematic soil map database-yet this is a long-term process, and the resulting spatial information will only be available at a coarse resolution [102].…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Climatic conditions range between a mean annual temperature of −2 • C and about 6 • C, and a mean annual precipitation from about 400 mm up to 1300 mm. The permanent NFI plots used here cover the whole country from latitude 58.1 • N up to 71.1 • N and longitude 4.6 • E up to 31 • E (Breidenbach et al 2020). There are three main dominant species in Norway: Norway spruce (Picea abies (L.) Karst.…”
Section: Datamentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Taking into account the risks and rapidly changing situation in EU forests, forest disturbances and updated risk assessments will also be part of the yearly reports. (Breidenbach et al 2021). These programs have been progressively deployed and enforced throughout Europe since the early twentieth century, and up to very recently in Eastern Europe (Bontemps 2021; Supplemental Material), with a strategic view of documenting both the status and changes of forests and support forest and environmental policies (Tomppo et al 2010).…”
Section: Proposal 4 (P4)mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The collection of forest ecosystem-, biodiversity-, and environment-oriented indicators by NFI surveys has also largely increased over time (Tomppo et al 2010, chapter 4;Breidenbach et al 2021), along with growing awareness for environmental issues (Forest Principles of the Rio conference, UN 1992). With the development of new, dedicated indicators, the use of NFI data for the quantification of forest biodiversity has experienced a strong development in recent years (e.g., Rondeux and Sanchez 2010, Storch et al 2018, Bertrand et al 2011.…”
Section: An Extended and Increasing Collection Of Forest Indicatorsmentioning
confidence: 99%