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Forest damage assessments in Austria

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Different types of assessments of forest damage are conducted in Austria. Faced with forest dieback reports, a needle and leaf sampling programme and a terrestrial crown assessment have been started after 1983, in addition to the forest inventory. In order to obtain more comprehensive and detailed information for the analysis of cause-effect relationships, as many investigations concerning forest health status as possible were concentrated on permanent plots out of the grid of the Austrian National Forest Inventory. This new, long-term project, started in 1987, was called the Forest Damage Monitoring System. An overview of the investigations and assessments, as they have been conducted by the end of 1991, is given in this paper.

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  1. Institut für Waldwachstum und Betriebswirtschaft, Forstliche Bundesversuchsanstalt, Seckendorff-Gudentweg 8, A-1131, Vienna, Austria

    Markus Neumann

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Neumann, M. Forest damage assessments in Austria. Environ Monit Assess 28, 183–188 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00547036

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