Cooperative Alaska Forest Inventory /
The Cooperative Alaska Forest Inventory (CAFI) is a comprehensive database of boreal forest conditions and dynamics in Alaska. The CAFI consists of fieldgathered information from numerous permanent sample plots distributed across interior and south-central Alaska including the Kenai Peninsula. The C...
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| Format: | Government Document eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Portland, OR :
U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station,
[2009]
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| Series: | General technical report PNW ;
785. |
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| Online Access: | https://purl.fdlp.gov/GPO/LPS113322 |
| Summary: | The Cooperative Alaska Forest Inventory (CAFI) is a comprehensive database of boreal forest conditions and dynamics in Alaska. The CAFI consists of fieldgathered information from numerous permanent sample plots distributed across interior and south-central Alaska including the Kenai Peninsula. The CAFI currently has 570 permanent sample plots on 190 sites representing a wide variety of growing conditions. New plots are being added to the inventory annually. To date, over 60 percent of the permanent sample plots have been remeasured and approximately 20 percent have been remeasured three times. Repeated periodic inventories on CAFI permanent sample plots provide valuable long-term information for modeling of forest dynamics such as growth and yield. Periodic remeasurements can also be used to test and monitor large-scale environmental and climate change. This guide documents sampling and estimation procedures of CAFI v.1.0, and provides details of the database, including attribute description and summary statistics. To help researchers and land managers successfully initiate or expand a permanent sample site program in Alaska, this guide offers a comprehensive tutorial to establish, maintain, and process permanent sample plots in Alaska's boreal forests. |
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| Item Description: | Title from cover. "April 2009." |
| Physical Description: | 42 pages : illustrations, map ; 28 cm. Also available via Internet. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (page 31). |