Diagnostics and air pollution damage appraisals: Are we being sufficiently careful in appraising our forest health?

Autor: J. M. Skelly
Rok vydání: 1993
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Zdroj: Forstwissenschaftliches Centralblatt. 112:12-20
ISSN: 1612-4677
0015-8003
DOI: 10.1007/bf02742124
Popis: Numerous forest surveys are conducted annually on a worldwide basis. These surveys have multiple purposes which may include estimates of forest growth and productivity, community structure, biodiversity appraisals and/or forest condition (health) appraisals as examples. Many of these surveys are then utilized by others in developing reports of a more generalized nature. Hence, data collected without attention to detail may become lost in averages and the data itself can more easily become susceptible to accidental or directed misinterpretations and manipulations. Such may very well be the case in surveys previously conducted to determine forest condition (health) and subsequent misinterpretations about generalized symptoms being ascribed to air pollutants as their sole etiological agents. Terms such as forest decline and ‘Waldsterben’ and ‘neuartige Waldschaden’ have become erroneously associated with air pollutants (acid rain) as the primary etiological agent.
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