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In Croatia, the first forest area mapping and forest inventory date to the eighteenth and nineteenth century in some regions. However, these early inventories were local-level surveys for the preparation of management plans.

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Čavlović, J., Božić, M., Teslak, K., Vedriš, M. (2016). Croatia. In: Vidal, C., Alberdi, I., Hernández Mateo, L., Redmond, J. (eds) National Forest Inventories. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-44015-6_15

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