Puerto Rico's forest inventory: adapting the forest inventory and analysis program to a Caribbean island.

T. J. Brandeis

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Puerto Rico's forest inventory: adapting the forest inventory and analysis program to a Caribbean island.

Informally Refereed

Authors:

T. J. Brandeis

Year:

2003

Type:

Miscellaneous Publication

Station:

International Institute of Tropical Forestry

Source:

Journal of Forestry. Jan/Feb(1):8-13. Notes: [2003-6]

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Abstract

Rapid Changes in vegetation over short distances, high species diversity, and fragmented landscape challege the implementation of the Forest service's Forest inventory and Analysis (FIA)program on Puerto Rico. Applying the hexagonal FIA grid as used on the continental United States, the Forest service is installing a new forest sampling and monitoring framework that incorporates previous inventory plots and has an expanded scope. however, an adequete description of Puerto Rico's diverse tropical forests requires additional sampling:

Keywords

FIA, international forestry

Citation

Brandeis, T. J. 2003. Puerto Rico''s forest inventory: adapting the forest inventory and analysis program to a Caribbean island. Journal of Forestry. Jan/Feb(1):8-13. Notes: [2003-6]