Titel
Harmonization Tests
Verfasser
Gherardo Chirici (*)
Ronald E. McRoberts
Susanne Winter
Anna Barbati
Urs-Beat Brändli
Meinrad Abegg
Jana Beranova
Jacques Rondeux
Roberta Bertini
Iciar Alberdi Asensio
Sonia Condés
Erscheinungsort
Dordrecht
Verlag
Springer
Erscheinungsjahr
2011
Material
Artikel aus einer Zeitschrift
Standardsignatur
14433
Datensatznummer
200170173
Quelle
National forest inventories: contributions to forest biodiversity assessments : COST Action E43 : 2010 International Year of Biodiversity; S. 121-190
Abstract
Chapter 5 reports the results of testing the proposed procedure for harmonizing estimates of indicators for six of the seven essential features of forest biodiversity. Twenty indicators were tested using data from the common database. In general, positive results were obtained for forest categories, forest structure, forest age, deadwood, and naturalness; the results were less positive for ground vegetatio because of the considerable differences in definitions and data acquisition methods. Of importance is, that the test focused on assessing harmonization procedures rather than on producing comprehensive estimates for particular countries or forest categories.