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| Nagendra, Harini; Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment (ATREE), Bangalore, India; Center for the Study of Institutions, Population, and Environmental Change (CIPEC), Indiana University; nagendra@atree.org; Ostrom, Elinor; Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis, Indiana University; ostrom@indiana.edu. |
| Ecologists and practitioners have conventionally used forest plots or transects for monitoring changes in attributes of forest condition over time. However, given the difficulty in collecting such data, conservation practitioners frequently rely on the judgment of foresters and forest users for evaluating changes. These methods are rarely compared. We use a dataset of 53 forests in five countries to compare assessments of forest change from forest plots, and forester and user evaluations of changes in forest density. We find that user assessments of changes in tree density are strongly and significantly related to assessments of change derived from statistical analyses of randomly distributed forest plots. User assessments of change in density at the... |
| Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports |
Palavras-chave: Biodiversity; Carbon storage; Community forests; Forest change; Forest monitoring; Peopled forests. |
| Ano: 2011 |
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