TITLE:
Review and Progress of China’s Forest Continuous Inventory System
AUTHORS:
Guozhong Lin, Xiaorong Wen, Chunguo Zhou, Guanghui She
KEYWORDS:
Review; China’s Forest Inventory System; Forest Continuous Inventory System; China Forest Resource
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Forestry,
Vol.3 No.1,
January
22,
2013
ABSTRACT: China was one of the earliest countries to set up a system to continuously inventory natural forest resources. From the beginning of the 1970s until today, seven forest resource inventories have been carried out. This research summarizes the progress of forest continuous inventories and analyzes the existing deficiencies ofChina’s forest continuous inventory system and forest management plan inventory. As stated above, this research offers corresponding countermeasures and suggestions: establishing a sample plot system for comprehensive national forest inventory and monitoring with each province’s continuous forest inventory based on the foundation of the national sample plot system, able to develop the province as a subset of the overall province-level forest resource inventory according to the actual conditions in each province. Through annual multi-resource/multi-benefit surveying of the forests, the monitoring of forest amounts, quality, functions and benefits will be assisted in its entirety. The further integration of the forest continuous inventory and the forest management plan inventory is also discussed. This research also proposes the varied probability sampling method with sub-compartments as the basic sampling unit (or combinations of sub-compartments). This will also satisfy the requirements of ecological inventory by region.