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.

Harmonized forest categories in central Italy / Chiavetta, Ugo; Camarretta, Nicolò; Garfı, Vittorio; Ottaviano, Marco; Chirici, Gherardo; Vizzarri, Matteo; Marchetti, Marco. - In: JOURNAL OF MAPS. - ISSN 1744-5647. - ELETTRONICO. - 12:(2016), pp. 98-100. [10.1080/17445647.2016.1161437]

Harmonized forest categories in central Italy

CHIRICI, GHERARDO;
2016

Abstract

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.
2016
12
98
100
Chiavetta, Ugo; Camarretta, Nicolò; Garfı, Vittorio; Ottaviano, Marco; Chirici, Gherardo; Vizzarri, Matteo; Marchetti, Marco
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