Forest area
The forest area is the total sum of all areas classified as forest according to NFI’s forest definition. The forest definition includes shrub forest. This theme is also used to assess the total area when forest and non-forest need to be distinguished.
Citation:
Abegg, M.; Brändli, U.-B.; Cioldi, F.; Fischer, C.; Herold-Bonardi, A.; Huber M.; Keller, M.; Meile, R.; Rösler, E.; Speich, S.; Traub, B.; Vidondo, B. (2014). Fourth national forest inventory - result tables and maps on the Internet for the NFI 2009-2013 (NFI4b). [Published online 06.11.2014] Available from World Wide Web http://www.lfi.ch/resultate/ Birmensdorf, Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL. doi:10.21258/1057112
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- 006aefed-0e93-4168-99d6-c9a8ea76ba53@envidat
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- forest-area
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- Issued date
- May 13, 2018
- Modification date
- April 11, 2022
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- English
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- https://www.envidat.ch/#/metadata/forest_area-44
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