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Dr. Kari T. Korhonen

Member since

2015

Organization: Luke

Country: Finland

Field(s) of expertise:

Forestry

I am working on:

National Forest Inventory

This member contributed to:

FRA 2025 Expert Consultation. Document #1: FRA 2025 - What has changed and why?

Consultation
12.09.2022 - 23.09.2022
- Dr. Kari T. Korhonen
  
  Luke
  
  Finland
  
  22.09.2022
  
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Towards improved reporting on primary forests

Consultation
11.02.2020 - 25.02.2020
- Dr. Kari T. Korhonen
  
  Luke
  
  Finland
  
  24.02.2020
  
  1. Is the FAO definition on primary forest (FAO, 2018) adequate to your national/regional/global assessment and reporting purposes? If not, what criteria would you like to add/remove from the FAO definition? No. All the relevant criteria are probably inccluded in the definition, but the definition is not operative
  
  2. Perhaps not fully missing but species composition and dynamics is poorly discussed, as compared to canopy cover, for example.
  
  3. NFI Field observations
  
  4.In our case we should combine Remote Sensing data with the field data to consider spatial issues
  
  5. By providing regionally more concrete criteria and thresholds
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