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标题：Harmonized forest categories in central Italy
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作者：Ugo Chiavetta ; Nicolò Camarretta ; Vittorio Garfı 等
期刊名称：Journal of Maps
印刷版ISSN：1744-5647
出版年度：2016
卷号：12
页码：98-100
DOI：10.1080/17445647.2016.1161437
语种：English
出版社：Journal of Maps
摘要：To support sustainable forest management, planning policies and environmental actions, it is essential to have available common and standardized geospatial information on forest structure, composition and distribution. In this paper we present a harmonized forest categories (HFCs) map of four administrative Regions located in central Italy (i.e. Marche, Abruzzo, Lazio and Molise) at a scale of 1:400,000. The study area extends over 42,246 km2, 14,878 km2 of which are covered by forests. Four regional forest maps were harmonized in order to produce common standardized information on composition, structure and the distribution of forests in central Italy. A forest category is a forest vegetation unit defined by the main tree species composition. In this study we adopted a nomenclature scheme composed of 16 forest and shrubland categories. This work represents the first HFCs map in Italy over a large area. The legend is also harmonized with the European Environment Agency forest types nomenclature.
关键词：Forest type; forest category; central Italy; harmonization